Notes from FAST17

As usual, I attended Usenix's File and Storage Technologies conference. Below the fold, my comments on the presentations I found interesting.

Injecting Faults in Distributed Storage

I'll record my reactions to some of the papers at the 2017 FAST conference in a subsequent post. But one of them has significant implications for digital preservation systems using distributed storage, and deserves a post to itself. Follow me below the fold as I try to draw out these implications.