Paper Info
Title
Policy-Based Information Lifecycle Management in a Large-Scale File System
Abstract
Policy-based file lifecycle management is important for balancing storage utilization and for regulatory conformance. It poses two important challenges, the need for simple yet effective policy design and an implementation that scales to billions of files. This paper describes the design and an innovative implementation technique of policy-based lifecycle management in a prototype built as a part of IBMýs new SAN file system. The policy specification leverages a key abstraction in the file system called storage pools and its ability to support location independence for files. The policy implementation uses an innovative new technique that combines concurrent policy execution and a policy decisions cache, to enable scaling to billions of files under normal usage patterns.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/POLICY.2005.26
POLICY
Keywords
Field
DocType
file system,policy implementation,policy decisions cache,important challenge,concurrent policy execution,policy-based information lifecycle management,effective policy design,new san file system,large-scale file system,policy-based file lifecycle management,innovative implementation technique,policy specification,information management,storage area networks,prototypes,waste management,formal specification,control systems,explosives,innovation management
Information management,IBM,Application lifecycle management,File system,Cache,Computer science,Formal specification,Innovation management,Storage area network,Database
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2265-3
14
1.57
References 
Authors
7
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mandis Beigi127626.79
Murthy Devarakonda24611.75
Rohit Jain3635.96
Marc Kaplan414516.32
David Pease5758.23
Jim Rubas6473.71
Upendra Sharma735217.73
Akshat Verma8117463.49