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Flash memory SSD has emerged as a promising storage media and fits naturally as a cache between the system RAM and the disk due to its performance/cost characteristics. Managing such an SSD cache is challenging and traditional cache replacements do not work well because of SSDs asymmetric read/write performances and wearing issues. This paper presents a new cache replacement algorithm referred to...
In order to maintain data in an SSD (solid-state disk) cache durable after a crash or reboot, metadata information needs to be stored persistently in SSD. There are two typical metadata methods, update-write-update and write-update. While write-update method has one less SSD write operation than update-write-update for each write I/O, it limits the amount of cached data that can be used after a system...
In largely distributed clusters, computing nodes are geographically deployed in various computing sites. Information processed in a distributed cluster is shared among a group of distributed processes or users by virtue of messages passing protocols (e.g. message passing interface - MPI) running on the Internet. Because of the open accessible nature of the Internet, data encryption for these large-scale...
As disk volume grows rapidly with terabyte disk becoming a norm, RAID reconstruction time in case of a failure takes prohibitively long time. This paper presents a new RAID architecture, S2-RAID, allowing the disk array to reconstruct very quickly in case of a disk failure. The idea is to form skewed sub RAIDs (S2-RAID) in the RAID structure so that reconstruction can be done in parallel dramatically...
This paper presents a new distributed data storage architecture that facilitates secure and efficient data replay in eHelathcare information system. The new architecture uses secured iSCSI protocol and records the parity of every data change to the eHealthcare information system performed by authorized health care providers. The recording and transmission of encrypted parities are done in background...
This paper presents a comprehensive study on implementations and performance evaluations of two snapshot techniques: copy-on-write snapshot and redirect-on-write snapshot. We develop a simple Markov process model to analyze data block behavior and its impact on application performance, while the snapshot operation is underway at the block-level storage. We have implemented the two snapshots techniques...
This paper presents a theoretical and experimental study on the limitations of copy-on-write snapshots and incremental backups in terms of data recoverability. We provide mathematical proofs of our new findings as well as implementation experiments to show how data recovery is done in case of various failures. Based on our study, we propose a new system architecture that will overcome the problems...
To protect data and recover data in case of failures, Linux operating system has built-in MD device that implements RAID architectures. Such device can recover data in case of single hardware failure among multiple disks. But it cannot recover data that were damaged by human errors, virus attack, and disastrous failures. In this paper, we present an implementation of a device driver that is capable...
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