Data management is a hugely important aspect of storage, and yet interoperable standard approaches to perform it have been slow in coming. A few frameworks have become widely used, with DPMI for backup probably leading the pack. Emerging initiatives such as IRODS hold...
Checking and repairing large file systems has become one of the biggest challenges facing the technology. The utility that does this goes by the name of "fsck", and it iterates over the entire content of a file system checking for the integrity of the (relational) data...
I was recently on a panel discussing the status of exascale storage today. The discussion was aligned on the 10PF, 100PF and 1EF boundaries. For 10PF, there's little to say, Lustre is running on 9 of the top 10 systems, including the 8PF Riken system. Much refinement is...
