Smoke and Mirrors: Reflecting Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4194223, abstract = {The Smoke and Mirrors File System (SMFS) mirrors files at geographically remote datacenter locations with negligible impact on file system performance at the primary site, and minimal degradation as a function of link latency. It accomplishes this goal using wide-area links that run at extremely high speeds, but have long round-trip-time latencies—a combination of properties that poses problems for traditional mirroring solutions. In addition to its raw speed, SMFS maintains good synchronization: should the primary site become completely unavailable, the system minimizes loss of work, even for applications that simultaneously update groups of files. We present the SMFS design, then evaluate the system on Emulab and the Cornell National Lambda Rail (NLR) Ring testbed. Intended applications include wide-area file sharing and remote backup for disaster recovery.}, author = {Weatherspoon, Hakim and Ganesh, Lakshmi and Marian, Tudor and Balakrishnan, Mahesh and Birman, Ken}, citeulike-article-id = {4194223}, journal = {7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09)}, keywords = {2009, adfs, data\_distribution, file-system, replication}, location = {San Francisco, CA}, month = {February}, posted-at = {2009-03-19 07:52:05}, priority = {2}, title = {Smoke and Mirrors: Reflecting Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4194223 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4194223 N2 - The Smoke and Mirrors File System (SMFS) mirrors files at geographically remote datacenter locations with negligible impact on file system performance at the primary site, and minimal degradation as a function of link latency. It accomplishes this goal using wide-area links that run at extremely high speeds, but have long round-trip-time latencies—a combination of properties that poses problems for traditional mirroring solutions. In addition to its raw speed, SMFS maintains good synchronization: should the primary site become completely unavailable, the system minimizes loss of work, even for applications that simultaneously update groups of files. We present the SMFS design, then evaluate the system on Emulab and the Cornell National Lambda Rail (NLR) Ring testbed. Intended applications include wide-area file sharing and remote backup for disaster recovery. CY - San Francisco, CA JF - 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09) TI - Smoke and Mirrors: Reflecting Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance KW - 2009 KW - adfs KW - data_distribution KW - file-system KW - replication AU - Weatherspoon, Hakim AU - Ganesh, Lakshmi AU - Marian, Tudor AU - Balakrishnan, Mahesh AU - Birman, Ken PY - 2009/02// ER -