CS262a: Reading Assignment #4 Due Monday, February 1st

1. The HP AutoRAID Hierarchical Storage System (2-up version)
   John Wilkes, Richard Golding, Carl Staelin, and Tim Sullivan. Appears in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 14, No, 1, February 1996, Pages 108-136.
2. Finding a needle in Haystack: Facebook’s photo storage
   Doug Beaver, Sanjeev Kumar, Harry C. Li, Jason Sobel, Peter Vajgel. Appears in Proceedings of the USENIX conference in Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2010

You must also:

Submit a summary for each paper.

Optional reading for paper #1:

• A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
  David patterson, Garth Gibson, and Randy Katz, ACM SIGMOD conference, 1988

Optional reading for paper #2:

• EVENODD: an optimal scheme for tolerating double disk failures in RAID architectures
  M. Blaum, J. Brady, J. Bruck and J. Menon. Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1994
• Scalabilility in the XFS File System (HTML)
  Adam Sweeney, Doug Doucette, Wei Hu, Curtis Anderson, Mike Nishimoto, and Geoff Peck. Proceedings of ACM USENIX Conference, 1996
• XFS: the big storage file system for Linux
  Christoph Hellwig. Appears in ;LOGIN, Vol 32, No. 5, October 2009

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