This course delves into the intricate world of storage systems, emphasizing their design and analysis. The curriculum is crafted to provide insights from both hardware and software perspectives, enabling students to:
Throughout the course, students will engage with various modules covering essential topics such as storage filesystems, access architectures, networking protocols, reliability, performance, and security considerations. By the end of the course, participants will be well-equipped to tackle modern storage challenges and innovations.
This module offers an overview of the course structure and objectives. Students will gain insights into the importance of storage systems in modern computing environments. Key topics include:
This module explores the essential relationship between storage, processing, and networking. It highlights how these components work together to optimize performance and efficiency in storage systems:
This module addresses the concepts of naming and storing data effectively within storage systems. It covers various techniques and methodologies to ensure data is easily accessible:
This module dives into storage filesystems, explaining their structure and functionality. It covers various types of filesystems and their role in data organization:
This module discusses access architecture and hard disk technologies, providing essential knowledge about how data is accessed and stored on hard disks:
This module focuses on SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) technology, explaining its significance in connecting and communicating with storage devices:
This module introduces Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) and its critical role in high-speed storage networking. Key topics include:
This module further explores FCP, along with 10Gb Ethernet, iSCSI, and TCP, discussing their roles in modern data storage solutions:
This module covers NFS (Network File System) and its various versions, highlighting how it facilitates file sharing across networks:
This module continues the discussion on NFS, covering versions 2, 3, and 4, along with CIFS (Common Internet File System), and their impact on file sharing:
This module focuses on USB storage technologies, explaining their architecture and practical applications in various environments:
This module addresses the concept of tiering in storage systems, detailing how data is organized based on access frequency and importance:
This module explores mobile, personal, and organizational storage types, detailing their specific characteristics and usage scenarios:
This module covers parallel, cloud, and web-scale storage systems, discussing their architectures and applications in modern data management:
This module discusses long-term storage solutions, focusing on strategies for maintaining data integrity and accessibility over extended periods:
This module focuses on storage interfaces and their crucial role in facilitating communication between storage devices and systems. It covers:
This module explores user-memory-CPU interactions, detailing how these elements work together to optimize storage operations:
This module focuses on spinlocks and concurrency in storage systems, explaining their significance in maintaining data integrity during operations:
This module covers block layer design, examining its importance in the overall architecture of storage systems:
This module focuses on various file allocation table (FAT) systems, including TFAT, F2FS, LFS, and FTL, discussing their unique features and applications:
This module covers data structures and their relevance in the design and implementation of storage systems, including:
This module discusses abstractions used in storage systems, highlighting their importance in simplifying complex operations:
This module focuses on link and write operations, detailing their significance in storage systems and how they impact data management:
This module examines ZFS (Zettabyte File System), discussing its architecture, unique features, and advantages for modern storage:
This module covers RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) in filesystems, emphasizing its role in data redundancy and performance:
This module discusses advanced RAID configurations such as RAID-Z, NetApp RAID4, and Flash Filesystems, highlighting their unique features and use cases:
This module focuses on reliability in storage systems, discussing methods to ensure data integrity and system uptime:
This module covers performance considerations in storage systems, detailing factors that influence speed and efficiency:
This module discusses security in storage systems, emphasizing the importance of data protection and access controls:
This module introduces the CAP Theorem, discussing its implications for distributed storage systems:
This module covers practical applications of POSIX, NFS, S3, and Zookeeper, comparing ACID and BASE properties in storage systems:
This module discusses consistency and commit problems in storage systems, detailing challenges and solutions to achieve data consistency:
This module introduces the Paxos algorithm, discussing its role in achieving consensus in distributed systems:
This module focuses on the group communication problem, discussing its significance in distributed systems and storage solutions:
This module addresses message ordering in distributed systems, detailing its importance for data integrity and consistency:
This module discusses ordering models in distributed systems, explaining their role in maintaining consistency and reliability:
This module focuses on orderings in filesystems, discussing how data is managed and accessed in an orderly fashion:
This module discusses the semantics of highly scalable filesystems, addressing how they manage data across distributed environments:
This module covers the Google File System (GFS), detailing its architecture, functions, and operations:
This module delves into the GFS model, discussing its implications for storage management and scalability:
This module discusses GFS functions and operations, detailing how they streamline data storage processes:
This module focuses on GFS problems and BigTable, discussing challenges and solutions in using GFS for data management:
This module concludes the course with key lessons learned from GFS and storage systems, emphasizing takeaways for future applications: