Distributed Data Storage with Data Versioning
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | CESNET Conference 2006 Proceedings |
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| Field | Informatics |
| Keywords | Distributed Data Storage; IBP; Libxio; file versioning; file sharing; endless files; lock-free |
| Description | In this paper, we have demonstrated the concept of a distributed file system that supports file versioning, file sharing, and endless files based on sliding window approach. It uses a distributed storage substrate that provides immutable block allocations, and a metadata manager, that maps files to data blocks using metadata. While file versioning and read-write sharing are often understood as contradictory, we demonstrate the approach that allows both properties to coexist. We have described the application-level prototype implementation, that we use for verifying this concept. |