DistOS 2019F 2019-10-30

Readings

• Atul Adya et al.,"FARSITE: Federated, Available, and Reliable Storage for an Incompletely Trusted Environment" (2002)
• William J. Bolosky et al., "The Farsite Project: A Retrospective" (2007)
• John Kubiatowicz et al., "OceanStore: An Architecture for Global-Scale Persistent Storage" (2000)
• Sean Rhea et al., "Pond: the OceanStore Prototype" (2003)

Discussion Questions

Please see the directions from Monday.

• What parts of these systems are trusted? Untrusted? Are these the same between FARSITE and OceanStore?
• At what scale do FARSITE and OceanStore intend to operate?
• How do these systems deal with:
  • Node/storage failure
  • Data corruption
  • Data privacy
• What is the incentive model for running these systems? How do they compare?
• Do we use anything like these systems today? Why or why not?
• Other thoughts and questions?