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==Readings==

NASD & Ceph
* [http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/distos/2008-03-10/gibson-nasd.pdf Garth A. Gibson et al., "A Cost-Effective, High-Bandwidth Storage Architecture" (1998)]
* [http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi06/tech/weil.html Weil et al., Ceph: A Scalable, High-Performance Distributed File System (OSDI 2006)].

==Discussion Questions==

* NASD was motivated by what changes in computer technology?
* What is a SAN? An object store (in the context of NASD & Ceph)?
* How does RAID relate to SANs?
* Does Ceph use a SAN?
* What is dynamic subtree partitioning in Ceph? Why is it important?
* What is CRUSH in Ceph? Why is it important?
* How does Ceph compare to GFS?

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