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.

Paper from MIT CSAIL presenting RadixVM: a new virtual memory system design that enables fully concurrent operations on shared address spaces for multithreaded processes.