On: PolarFS: Alibaba Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database [pdf]

[RobLach]

Most interesting bit is their consensus protocol.

[baotiao → RobLach]

Thank you. We will provide our TLA+ proof soon..

[kjeetgill → RobLach]

I'm on mobile so I haven't been able to really fully read the paper: Can you highlight what's interesting or novel about it?

[baotiao → kjeetgill]

I think the most interesting part is PolarFS taking full advantage of the emerging techniques like RDMA, NVMe, and SPDK. And the Parallel raft consensus algorithm