Fatman: Cost-saving and reliable archival storage based on volunteer resources

Summary: Fatman consolidates spare storage across tens of thousands of volunteer web servers into a 100+ PB archival system, using strong isolation and budget limits to preserve host SLOs. Fault-aware management predicts disk failures, cutting MTTR 76.3% and file crashes 35%. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11057
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,202 | 16.29%
DOI: 10.14778/2733004.2733009

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Authors

1. An Qin (Baidu)
2. Dianming Hu (Baidu)
3. Jun Liu (Baidu)
4. Wenjun Yang (Baidu)
5. Dai Tan (Baidu)

BibTeX Citation

@article{qin_vldb14,
        title = {{Fatman: Cost-saving and reliable archival storage based on volunteer resources}},
        author = {Qin, An and Hu, Dianming and Liu, Jun and Yang, Wenjun and Tan, Dai},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {13},
        pages = {1748--1759},
        doi = {10.14778/2733004.2733009},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2733004.2733009},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,043	Mixer: Efficiently Understanding and Retrieving Visual Content at Web-scale	2021	VLDB	5.9966613e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
270	Disk Shadowing	1988	VLDB	0.00022768303
4,003	XORing Elephants: Novel Erasure Codes for Big Data	2013	VLDB	6.9656006e-05

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