Wednesday, April 25, 2007

WAFL

This awesome paper was written almost 10 years ago:

http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi99/full_papers/hutchinson
/hutchinson_html/hutchinson.html

Its still pretty much the best explanation of WAFL internals (sans fluff) I've ever read. Read it the next time you wonder why snapshots on a NetApp are so darn fast.

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