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2004 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'04)
A Decentralized Algorithm for Erasure-Coded Virtual Disks
Florence, Italy
June 28-July 01
ISBN: 0-7695-2052-9
Svend Fr?lund, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
Arif Merchant, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
Yasushi Saito, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
Susan Spence, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
Alistair Veitch, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
A Federated Array of Bricks is a scalable distributed storage system composed from inexpensive storage bricks. It achieves high reliability with low cost by using erasure coding across the bricks to maintain data reliability in the face of brick failures. Erasure coding generates n encoded blocks from m data blocks (n > m) and permits the data blocks to be reconstructed from any m of these encoded blocks. We present a new fully decentralized erasure-coding algorithm for an asynchronous distributed system. Our algorithm provides fully linearizable read-write access to erasure-coded data and supports concurrent I/O controllers that may crash and recover. Our algorithm relies on a novel quorum construction where any two quorums intersect in m processes.
Citation:
Svend Fr?lund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair Veitch, "A Decentralized Algorithm for Erasure-Coded Virtual Disks," dsn, pp.125, 2004 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'04), 2004
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