Summary: Manageable Storage via Adaptation in WiND
Andrea Arpaci­Dusseau Remzi Arpaci­Dusseau John Bent Brian Forney
Sambavi Muthukrishnan Florentina Popovici Omer Zaki
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Abstract
The key to storage manageability is adaptation. In tradi­
tional storage systems, adaptation is performed by a hu­
man administrator, who must assess problems, and then
manually adjust various knobs and levers to bring the be­
havior of the system back to an acceptable level. Future
storage systems must themselves adapt, and in doing so,
reduce the need for manual intervention.
In this paper, we describe the Wisconsin Network Disks
project (WiND), wherein we seek to understand and de­
velop the key adaptive techniques required to build a truly
manageable network­attached storage system. WiND
gracefully and efficiently adapts to changes in the envi­
ronment, reducing the burden of administration and in­
creasing the flexibility and performance of storage for an

Source: Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi - Department of Computer Sciences, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Liblit, Ben - Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences