2 papers
cs.DC2025
FalconFS: Distributed File System for Large-Scale Deep Learning Pipeline
Jingwei Xu, Junbin Kang, Mingkai Dong +10
Client-side metadata caching has long been considered an effective method for accelerating metadata operations in distributed file systems (DFSs). However, we have found that clien…
cs.DC2024
SwitchFS: Asynchronous Metadata Updates for Distributed Filesystems with In-Network Coordination
Jingwei Xu, Mingkai Dong, Qiulin Tian +3
Distributed filesystem metadata updates are typically synchronous. This creates inherent challenges for access efficiency, load balancing, and directory contention, especially unde…