Paper produced by Stanford University researchers presenting Dune, a system that provides direct access to hardware features by taking leverage of Intel VT-x virtualization extension.

Paper produced by MIT CSAIL and Harvard University researchers proving the commutativity rule as a critical aspect of system's interface design to promote scalability.

This paper presents GFS, the scalable distributed file system implemented at Google to support data-intensive applications with fault tolerance mechanisms and high aggregate performance to a large number of clients.

Paper presenting the Journaling implementation in Linux file systems, along with the techniques used for allowing robust crash recovery from disasters during disk operations.

Paper presenting Sprite LFS, a sytem implementing a new technique for disk storage management that speeds up both file writing and crash recovery.