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High Availability, Scalable Storage, Dynamic Peer Networks: Pick Two
Peer-to-peer storage aims to build large-scale, reliable and available storage from many small-scale unreliable, low-availability distributed hosts. Data redundancy is the key to any data guarantees. However, preserving redundancy in the face of highly dynamic membership is costly. We apply a simple resource usage model to measured behavior from the Gnutella file-sharing network to argue that large-scale cooperative storage is limited by likely dynamics and cross-system bandwidth—not by local disk space. We examine some bandwidth optimization strategies like delayed response to failures, admission control, and load-shifting and find that they do not alter the basic problem. We conclude that when redundancy, data scale, and dynamics are all high, the requisite cross-system bandwidth is beyond reasonable expectations.
author = {Charles Blake and Rodrigo Rodrigues},
title = {High Availability, Scalable Storage, Dynamic Peer Networks: Pick Two},
booktitle = {9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS IX)},
year = {2003},
address = {Lihue, HI},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos-ix/high-availability-scalable-storage-dynamic-peer-networks-pick-two},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = may
}
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