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| Lecture | Date | Lecturer | Topics | Required readings | Optional readings | Notes |
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| 1 | Mon 08/25 | Greg | Overview and Flash SSD Operation [pdf] |
Syllabus, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch44, Agrawal2008 | Hennessy2002, Harchol2000 | |
| 2 | Wed 08/27 | Greg | Flash SSD Operation and Lab 1 Walkthrough [pdf] |
Agrawal2008 | He2017, Mogul2009, McAllister2024 | Slides for the myFTL project is available here. Lab 1, Checkpoints 0 and 1 are released. |
| Mon 09/01 | Neither | No class (Labor Day) |
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| 3 | Wed 09/03 | George | Disk Drive Operation [pdf] |
Ruemmler1994, Worthington1994 | Massiglia1986 ch2 1, Massiglia1986 ch2 2, Massiglia1986 ch12, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch37 | Read pages 2-1 to 2-20 from Massiglia_ch2_1, 2-38 to 2-52 from Massiglia_ch2_2, and 12-1 to 12-11 from Massiglia_ch12. |
| 4 | Mon 09/08 | George | File System Storage Layout [pdf] |
McKusick1996 ch8, Lee2015 | Ren2013, Rodeh2013, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch40, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch43 | |
| 5 | Wed 09/10 | George | File System Organization [pdf] |
Vahalia1995 ch8 | Giampaolo1998 ch2, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch39, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch40 | |
| 6 | Mon 09/15 | Greg & George | File System Organization (cont'd); Caching and File System Integrity [pdf] |
Ganger2000, Giampaolo1998 ch7 | ArpaciDusseau2015 ch42, Fryer2012 | |
| 7 | Wed 09/17 | Greg | Caching and File System Integrity (cont'd) |
Ganger2000, Giampaolo1998 ch7 | ArpaciDusseau2015 ch42, Fryer2012 | |
| 8 | Mon 09/22 | George | Disk Array Organization [pdf] |
Chen1994, Schroeder2007 | Schroeder2016, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch38 | |
| 9 | Wed 09/24 | George | Disk Array Systems [pdf] |
Chen1994, Hetzler2011 | Greenan2010, Krioukov2008, Daly1995 | |
| 10 | Mon 09/29 | Brian Gold (Founding Engineer / VP, Pure Storage FlashBlade) | Scaling all-Flash storage arrays with HW/SW co-design |
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| Wed 10/01 | Neither | No class |
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| 11 | Mon 10/06 | All | Exam 1 Q&A |
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| Wed 10/08 | All | Exam 1 |
Exam1 F20 Q, Exam1 F21 Q, Exam1 F22 Q, Exam1 F23 Q, Exam1 F24 Q | Exam1 F20 A, Exam1 F21 A, Exam1 F22 A, Exam1 F23 A, Exam1 F24 Q | Exam 1 covers all material up to and including the lecture before the exam, including the projects. Try taking the Practice exams without looking at the answers. | |
| Mon 10/13 | Neither | No class (Fall break) |
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| Wed 10/15 | Neither | No class (Fall break) |
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| 12 | Mon 10/20 | George | Distributed FS and NAS Interfaces [pdf] |
McKusick1996 ch9 | Howard1988, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch47, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch48, ArpaciDusseau2015 ch49, RFC1813 | |
| 13 | Wed 10/22 | Greg | Multi-server Distributed FSes |
Ghemawat2003 | Kadekodi2020 | |
| 14 | Mon 10/27 | TBD | TBD |
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| 15 | Wed 10/29 | TBD | TBD |
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| 16 | Mon 11/03 | TBD | TBD |
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| 17 | Wed 11/05 | TBD | TBD |
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| 18 | Mon 11/10 | TBD | TBD |
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| 19 | Wed 11/12 | TBD | TBD |
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| 20 | Mon 11/17 | TBD | TBD |
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| 21 | Wed 11/19 | TBD | TBD |
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| 22 | Mon 11/24 | TBD | TBD |
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| Wed 11/26 | Neither | No class (Thanksgiving) |
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| 23 | Mon 12/01 | TBD | TBD |
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| 24 | Wed 12/03 | TBD | TBD |
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