reading-list.md

Motr Reading List

For non-hyperlinked documentation links, please refer to this file : doc/motr-design-doc-list.rst.

• this document
• Motr data organization
• Motr architecture 2-pager
• Summary of M0 architecture
  • Motr in Prose
• M0 Architecture Documentation
• FAQ
• Glossary

Motr Clients

Client API is the direct interface to Motr; our developer guide shows how to build client applications using this API. m0cp, m0cat, and m0kv are example applications using this API. In our CORTX parent repo, the Cluster Setup guide has useful information about using these tools.

Go bindings allow to write Motr client applications in Go language quickly and efficiently.

HSM Tool reference application utilizes Motr's Composite Objects Layout API, which allows to build Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) in a multiple pools/tiers configuration clusters.

Containers

• containers 1-pager

Resource Management

• 1-pager
• High level design of resource management interfaces

DTM

• 1-pager
• overview
• High level design of version numbers
• Jim Gray's publications
• Leslie Lamport's publications
  • The Part-Time Parliament (Paxos)
  • Paxos made simple
  • Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
• Aries: A transaction recovery method supporting fine-granularity locking and partial rollbacks using write-ahead logging
• Echo File System
  • The Echo distributed file system
  • Availability in the echo file system
  • New value logging in the Echo replicated file system
• Reliable Communication in the Presence of Failures
• The Two-Phase Commit Protocol
• Paxos overview

Request Handler

• request handler 1-pager
• High level design of fop state machine
• High level design of M0 request handler
• Non-blocking server and locality of reference

IO

• sns 1-pager
• sns overview
• High level design of a parity de-clustering algorithm

Layouts

• On layouts

MD-Store

• NA

RPC

• AR of rpc layer

Function Shipping

• Function shipping (In-storage-compute) usage in motr: PDF.

Network

• LNET: Lustre Networking

ADDB

• addb 1-pager

FDMI

• FDMI High Level Decomposition
• FDMI HLD
• FDMI Design Notes

Concurrency

• Multi-core programming
• The art of multiprocess programming, M. Herlihy, N. Shavit.

Other

• Network File System (NFS) Version 4 Minor Version 1 Protocol