file-systems

Weekly Paper Notes — one of the top picks from the 2026-10-31 CS paper digest. Area: Databases. Authors: Zebin Ren (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Biao Cao, Zhihui Yin, Qiushi Chen, Jielong Jian, Jiwei Xiong, Xinxing Wang, Yan Xing, Liguo Duan, Ran Zheng, Xianjun Meng, Zhenyu Hou (Baidu), Kang Chen (Tsinghua University, now Peking University) arXiv: 2610.32247 · PDF TL;DR Most large storage systems now keep their namespace in a distributed database: Facebook’s Tectonic on ZippyDB, Google’s Colossus on Bigtable, HopsFS on NDB....

Weekly Paper Notes — 🔁 Seminal Paper of the Week, 2026-08-01. Area: Operating Systems / Storage. Authors: Mendel Rosenblum, John K. Ousterhout (University of California, Berkeley) Published: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, February 1992 (SOSP ‘91) DOI: 10.1145/146941.146943 Why this paper still matters Almost every high-performance storage system built in the last fifteen years is a log-structured file system wearing a different name. LevelDB, RocksDB, Cassandra, HBase, Kafka, every SSD’s flash translation layer, ZFS’s copy-on-write, btrfs, WiredTiger, Lucene’s segment merges — all of them convert random writes into sequential appends and then run a background process to reclaim space....