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Silverback: A global-scale archival system

by: H. Weatherspoon, C. Wells, P. Eaton, B. Zhao, J. Kubiatowicz
(2001)

X Abstract

The rise of ubiquitous computing has created a need for wide-area durable storage. We propose a model and interface for such an archival system, that stores data in a durable, verifiable, available, and self-maintainable manner. We argue that such a system can be created by using novel techniques of erasure codes, secure hashing, and decentralized wide-area location infrastructures to distribute fragments across the wide-area on an arbitrary set of servers. This model allows files to remain...

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