Towards web-based delta synchronization for cloud storage systems Xiao et al., FAST’18 If you use Dropbox (or an equivalent service) to synchronise file between your Mac or PC and the cloud, then it uses an efficient delta-sync (rsync) protocol to only upload the parts of a file that have changed. If you use a web ... Continue Reading

Clay codes: moulding MDS codes to yield an MSR code Vajha et al., FAST’18 As we know, storage fails (or the nodes to which it is directly attached, which amounts to pretty much the same thing). Assuming we can detect the failure, we need to recover from it. In order to be able to recover, ... Continue Reading