Xianzheng Dou, Jason Flinn, and Peter M. Chen, University of Michigan
We propose a new point in the design space of versioning and provenance-aware file systems in which the entire operating system, not just the file system, supports such functionality. We leverage deterministic recordand- replay to substitute computation for data. This leads to a new file system design where the log of nondeterministic inputs, not file data, is the fundamental unit of persistent storage. We outline a distributed storage system design based on these principles and describe the challenges we foresee for achieving our vision.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings {190597,
author = {Xianzheng Dou and Jason Flinn and Peter M. Chen},
title = {Toward Eidetic Distributed File Systems},
booktitle = {7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage 15)},
year = {2015},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage15/workshop-program/presentation/dou},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul
}
