Here are some papers that are potentially of interest.

[http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store] -- sophisticated distributed hash table polished by extensive high-performance practical usage; An excellent paper!

[http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rhea05fixing.html Fixing the Embarrassing Slowness of OpenDHT on PlanetLab (2005)] -- practical lessons in DHT performance that theoreticians learned by deployment

[http://srhea.net/papers/ntr-worlds05.pdf Non-Transitive Connectivity and DHTs] -- practical lessons in dealing with not-fully-connected DHTs that theoreticians learned in deployment

[http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/mislove03post.html POST: A Secure, Resilient, Cooperative Messaging System] -- use a DHT for messaging; includes a suggestion to ameliorate the confidentiality problems of single-instance store by adding random bits to small text messages

[http://betathoughts.blogspot.com/2007/06/brief-history-of-consensus-2pc-and.html  A brief history of Consensus, 2PC and Transaction Commit.] -- a web page summarizing the evolution of the academic theory of decentralized, reliable systems.

[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/incast-fast2008-abstract.html Measurement and Analysis of TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-based Storage Systems] -- Hm...  Could this happen to us?

== Crypto ==

[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.9522 Salsa20 Design] a fast and secure cipher

[http://cr.yp.to/snuffle.html#security Salsa20 Security Arguments] why Salsa20 is probably safe against this and that threat

[http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lochter-pkix-brainpool-ecc-01 ECC Brainpool Standard Curves and Curve Generation] new elliptic curve parameters which are more certain to be safe

== Local Filesystems ==

[https://www.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/iron-sosp05.pdf IRON Filesystems] examines how ext3, reiserfs, xfs, and ntfs handle various sorts of errors

== See Also ==

This page is inspired by [http://flud.org flud]'s [http://flud.org/wiki/index.php/RelatedPapers Related Papers] page, which is well worth reading.

See also Ludovic Courtès's excellent [http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludo-1.html bibliography of cooperative backup].

See also our [wiki:RelatedProjects RelatedProjects page].