| Week of | Monday | Wednesday |
|---|---|---|
| 1/14 - 1/18 |
L1: Introduction and overview of storage systems | L2: Metrics of I/O system quality |
| 1/21 - 1/25 |
No class (MLK Day) | L3: Disk drive operation |
| 1/28 - 2/1 |
L3 cont: Disk operation and firmware | L4: Disk firmware and request optimization |
| 2/4 - 2/8 |
L5: File system organization | L6: On-disk data layout Lab 1 out (autolab) - fsck paper |
| 2/11 - 2/15 |
L7: Caching and FS integrity | No class |
| 2/18 - 2/22 |
L8: Disk array organization | L9: Disk array systems |
| 2/25 - 3/1 |
L10: Flash storage |
More Flash plus NVM |
| 3/4 - 3/8 |
EXAM 1 Spring'04: exam solns Fall'05: exam solns Fall'06: exam solns Spring'08: exam solns Spring'09: exam solns Spring'10: exam solns Spring'11: exam solns Spring'12: solns Spring'13: exam solns |
L11: Backup and data protection
LAB 1 DUE AT 11:59pm (3/6) |
| 3/11 - 3/15 |
No class (Spring Break) | No class (Spring Break) |
| 3/18 - 3/22 |
L12: CloudFS and more Distributed file systems and NAS Interfaces |
More distributed file systems |
| 3/25 - 3/29 |
L13: CloudFS and more Distributed file systems and NAS Interfaces, cont'd. | L14: Parallel File Systems |
| 4/1 - 4/5 |
L16: Reliability enhancement techniques | |
| 4/8 - 4/12 |
L17: Multi-core issues for FS/storage | Catching up and perhaps a bit more distributed storage |
| 4/15 - 4/19 |
Guest speaker:
Brent Welch, Panasas Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Topic: Object Storage Reading |
Guest Speaker:
Sanjay Radia, Co-founder and Architect, Hortonworks Topic: Hadoop HDFS Reading, Slides |
| 4/22 - 4/26 |
L18: Catch-up and Exam 2 Q&A |
EXAM 2
Spring'13: solns Fall'05: exam solns Spring'08: exam solns |
| 4/29 - 5/3 |
Guest speaker:
Hugo Patterson Distinguished PDL Alum was CTO of DataDomain (acquired by EMC) Topic: Data Deduplication |
Guest speaker:
Mike Kazar CTO, Avere Systems Topic: Lessons from building storage products |