Weil and colleagues: Ceph distributed file system

What changed

Presented Ceph's CRUSH-based placement, distributed metadata design and measured prototype behaviour.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact five-author OSDI 2006 paper. It does not absorb Weil's later thesis, RADOS revisions, every Ceph contributor, production deployments or performance beyond the reported prototype and workloads.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact five-author OSDI 2006 paper. It does not absorb Weil's later thesis, RADOS revisions, every Ceph contributor, production deployments or performance beyond the reported prototype and workloads.

Contributors

• Sage A. Weil · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Scott A. Brandt · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Ethan L. Miller · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Darrell D. E. Long · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Carlos Maltzahn · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• USENIX OSDI record and paper for Ceph

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