3 Ways to Achieve Crash Consistency
“Even well-managed data centers suffer from occasional power-loss events,” says Ram Alagappan in a recent article for ACM Queue, which means ensuring crash consistency across data storage systems is crucial.
“A storage system is deemed crash-consistent if it can recover the persistent data it stores to a meaningful state after crashes,” Alagappan says, but achieving this state can be quite challenging.
This article explores three ways (through three research papers) to help: “finding and fixing crash-consistency bugs; developing new abstractions that ease crash consistency; and exploiting new hardware.”
Read more at ACM Queue.
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