Virtual Machine File System

VMFS is an interesting paper. It tells us how VMware builds its high performance SAN file system. Since I was writing file system in ESX kernel in the passed year, I feel I got a good position in understand VMFS's designs and intentions. Here is the summary slides about it. I did my best to make sure no confidential information are leaked. All sentences and pictures are either from the paper or from Internet.

vmfs intro

View more presentations from bergwolf

Google Megastore

Reading google's infrastructure paper is always joy, of which I have just had one recently. Google's megastore presents how Google builds transactional service on top of bigtable. Here is the slide I wrote about it...

Google Megastore

View more presentations from bergwolf

RCU

RCU had been a mystery to me for quite a long time. I finally had sometime to walk it through and understand what happened and why. Here is the slide I presented to guys on Auguest's linuxfb.net (@linuxfb) seminar...

RCU

View more presentations from bergwolf