This module addresses the concept of tiering in storage systems, detailing how data is organized based on access frequency and importance:
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: