Ceph Q&A

...https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/technical_work/Swordfish/Swordfish_v1.0.6_UserGuide.pdf To answer the second part of your question, SeaStar, which follows similar design principals as SPDK, is used as the asynchronous programming library given it is already in C++...

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Data Reduction Research Notes

...nice overview is at http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/feature/Virtual-tape-library-VTL-data-deduplication-FAQ. Thin Provisioning Thin provisioning is a storage reduction technology which uses storage virtualization to reduce overall usage; for a brief review, see http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/white_papers/b-idc_exec_brief_thin_provisioning_WP.en-us.pdf Deduplication Characteristics...

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