NPTEL : Storage Systems (Computer Science and Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Dr. K. Gopinath


Lecture 1 - Overview

Lecture 2 - Storage, Processing, Networking

Lecture 3 - Naming and Storing

Lecture 4 - Storage Filesystems

Lecture 5 - Access Architecture, Hard Disks

Lecture 6 - SCSI

Lecture 7 - Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP)

Lecture 8 - FCP, 10Gb Ethernet, iSCSI, TCP

Lecture 9 - NFS, NFSv2

Lecture 10 - NFSv2, NFSv3, NFSv4, CIFS

Lecture 11 - USB Storage

Lecture 12 - Tiering

Lecture 13 - Mobile/Personal/Organizational - type Storage

Lecture 14 - Parallel/Cloud/Web-scale Storage

Lecture 15 - Long-term Storage

Lecture 16 - Storage interfaces

Lecture 17 - User-Memory-CPU interactions

Lecture 18 - Spinlock, Concurrency

Lecture 19 - Block Layer design

Lecture 20 - FAT, TFAT, F2FS, LFS, FTL

Lecture 21 - Data Structures

Lecture 22 - Abstractions

Lecture 23 - Link & Write Operations

Lecture 24 - ZFS

Lecture 25 - RAID in Filesystems

Lecture 26 - RAID-Z, NetApp RAID4, Flash Filesystems

Lecture 27 - Reliability

Lecture 28 - Performance

Lecture 29 - Security

Lecture 30 - CAP Theorem

Lecture 31 - POSIX/NFS/S3/Zookeeper, ACID Vs. BASE

Lecture 32 - Consistency & Commit problems

Lecture 33 - Paxos

Lecture 34 - Group Communication problem

Lecture 35 - Message Ordering

Lecture 36 - Ordering Models

Lecture 37 - Orderings in Filesystems

Lecture 38 - Semantics of highly scalable filesystems

Lecture 39 - GFS

Lecture 40 - GFS Model

Lecture 41 - GFS functions and operations

Lecture 42 - GFS problems, BigTable

Lecture 43 - Lessons to learn