@inproceedings{mazurek2012zzfs,
author = {Mazurek, Michelle L. and Thereska, Eno and Gunawardena, Dinan and Harper, Richard and Scott, James},
title = {ZZFS: A Hybrid Device and Cloud File System For Spontaneous Users},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th Usenix Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'12)},
year = {2012},
month = {February},
abstract = {Good execution of data placement, caching and consistency policies across a user’s personal devices has always been hard. Unpredictable networks, capricious user behavior with leaving devices on or off and non-uniform energy-saving policies constantly interfere with the good intentions of a storage system’s policies. This paper’s contribution is to better manage these inherent uncertainties. We do so primarily by building a low-power communication channel that is available even when a device is off. This channel is mainly made possible by a novel network interface card that is carefully placed under the control of storage system protocols. The design space can benefit existing placement policies (e.g., Cimbiosys [21], Perspective [23], Anzere [22]). It also allows for interesting new ones. We build a file system called ZZFS around a particular set of policies motivated by user studies. Its policies cater to users who interact with the file system in an ad hoc way — spontaneously and without pre-planning.},
publisher = {USENIX},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/zzfs-a-hybrid-device-and-cloud-file-system-for-spontaneous-users/},
edition = {Proceedings of the 10th Usenix Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'12)},
}