DFS-Haystack
Paper Reading · Part 4 of 13The primary project in my group is a distributed file system (DFS) that provides POSIX file system semantics. The approach to handle “lots of small files” (LOSF) is inspired by Haystack, …
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MIT6.824 Bigtable
Paper Reading · Part 3 of 13I recently found a translated version of the Bigtable paper online and saved it, but hadn’t gotten around to reading it. Lately, I’ve noticed that Bigtable shares many design similarities …
MIT6.824 GFS
Paper Reading · Part 2 of 13This article introduces the Google File System (GFS) paper published in 2003, which proposed a distributed file system designed to store large volumes of data reliably, meeting Google’s data …
Epoll and IO Multiplexing
Let’s start with epoll. epoll is an I/O event notification mechanism in the Linux kernel, designed to replace select and poll. It aims to efficiently handle large numbers of file descriptors and …
Linux Cgroups Overview
Linux Cgroups (Control Groups) provide the ability to limit, control, and monitor the resources used by a group of processes and their future child processes. These resources include CPU, memory, …