Silver: A Scalable, Distributed, Multi-versioning, Always Growing (Ag) File System

Authors: 

Michael Wei, VMware Research and University of California, San Diego; Amy Tai, VMware Research and Princeton University; Chris Rossbach, Ittai Abraham, and Udi Wieder, VMware Research; Steven Swanson, University of California, San Diego; Dahlia Malkhi, VMware Research

Abstract: 

The storage needs of users have shifted from just needing to store data to requiring a rich interface which enables the efficient query of versions, snapshots and creation of clones. Providing these features in a distributed file system while maintaining scalability, strong consistency and performance remains a challenge. In this paper we introduce Silver, a file system which leverages the Corfu distributed logging system to not only store data, but to provide fast strongly consistent snapshots, clones and multi-versioning while preserving the scalability and performance of the distributed shared log. We describe and implement Silver using a FUSE prototype and show its performance characteristics.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {196392,
author = {Michael Wei and Chris Rossbach and Ittai Abraham and Udi Wieder and Steven Swanson and Dahlia Malkhi and Amy Tai},
title = {Silver: A Scalable, Distributed, Multi-versioning, Always Growing (Ag) File System},
booktitle = {8th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage 16)},
year = {2016},
address = {Denver, CO},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage16/workshop-program/presentation/wei},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun,
}
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