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ANViL: Advanced Virtualization for Modern Non-Volatile Memory Devices

Zev Weiss, Sriram Subramanian, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Nisha Talagala, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau

Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
SanDisk, Inc.

Abstract:

We present a new form of storage virtualization based on block-level address remapping. By allowing the host system to manipulate this address map with a set of three simple operations (clone, move, and delete), we enable a variety of useful features and optimizations to be readily implemented, including snapshots, deduplication, and single-write journaling. We present a prototype implementation called Project ANViL and demonstrate its utility with a set of case studies.

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