Flexible, Wide-Area Storage for Distributed Systems with WheelFS

WheelFS is a wide-area distributed storage system intended to help multi-site applications share data and gain fault tolerance. WheelFS takes the form of a distributed file system with a familiar POSIX interface. Its design allows applications to adjust the tradeoff between prompt visibility of upda...

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Main Authors: Stribling, Jeremy (Contributor), Sovran, Yair (Author), Zhang, Irene (Contributor), Pretzer, Xavid F. (Contributor), Li, Jinyang (Author), Kaashoek, M. Frans (Contributor), Morris, Robert Tappan (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: USENIX Association, 2011-01-20T14:59:18Z.
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