Rajat Kateja, After Hours AcademicQnA: Minimizing backup storage costJeff wants to backup data on his machine. But he is concerned about the storage cost of the backups. He plans to do an initial full backup…Aug 22Aug 22
Rajat Kateja, After Hours AcademicScale and performance in a distributed file systemThe paper describes the distributed Andrew File System (AFS). AFS’s design provide insights into building a scalable distributed file…Nov 8, 2021Nov 8, 2021
Rajat Kateja, After Hours AcademicSun’s network file system‘NFS is an early example of a distributed file system and serves as a case study in the early thinking around distributed file systems …Oct 18, 2021Oct 18, 2021
Rajat Kateja, After Hours AcademicFile System Design for an NFS File Server ApplianceNetApp is one of the largest storage providers today and its storage appliances still use the WAFL file system at their core.Apr 12, 20211Apr 12, 20211
Rajat Kateja, After Hours AcademicA Case for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)… the result of David Patterson asking Garth Gibson to learn about high performance storage systems and teach the UC Berkeley architects.Apr 5, 2021Apr 5, 2021
Rajat Kateja, After Hours AcademicMetadata Update Performance in File SystemsThe ubiquitous systems problem of crash consistency, as it relates to file systems.Mar 23, 20211Mar 23, 20211
Rajat Kateja, After Hours AcademicThe Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File SystemHow to (almost) always write sequentially onto hard disk drives?Mar 15, 2021Mar 15, 2021
Rajat Kateja, After Hours AcademicThis seemingly low-level detail is used for real impact in systems.Source: 'Netflix: Streaming Entertainment to 200 Million Members Around the World' keynote from FAST 2021…Mar 8, 2021Mar 8, 2021
Rajat Kateja, After Hours AcademicA Fast File System for UNIXA summary of the foundational file system that introduced disk-awareness!Mar 8, 20211Mar 8, 20211
Rajat Kateja, After Hours AcademicDesign Tradeoffs for SSD PerformanceA peek into the intricate architecture and design of SSDsMar 1, 2021Mar 1, 2021