CSE-590-T02 "Storage Systems" Calendar (Spring 2025)

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Class Date Day Topic Reading Homework
01 01/28/2025 Tue show-n-tell (HDD breakdown), HDD intro   systems/OS overview
02 01/30/25 Thu HDD cont. (CHS, LBA, sector sizes), secure erase    
03 02/04/25 Tue HDD cont., Device drivers, I/O schedulers    
04 02/06/25 Thu File systems    
05 02/11/25 Tue File systems    
06 02/13/25 Thu File systems    
07 02/18/25 Tue Guest lecture 1: Storage Courslets (using, taking surveys) [Use zoom link on piazza]   HW0 posted
08 02/20/25 Thu Guest lecture 2: Storage Courslets (developing) [Use zoom link on piazza]    
09 02/25/25 Tue Guest lecture 3: wrapfs kernel code, running regressions [Use zoom link on piazza]    
10 02/27/25 Thu Guest lecture 4: wrapfs kernel code, running regressions [Use zoom link on piazza]    
11 03/04/25 Tue File systems, block based organization    
12 03/06/25 Thu Other file systems: CD, floppy, stackable, virtual, etc.   HW0 due (3/9/2025)
13 03/11/25 Tue journaling, f/s optimizations, CoW/snapshots   HW1 released
14 03/13/25 Thu RAID    
15 03/18/25 Tue Spring break (no class)    
16 03/20/25 Thu Spring break (no class)    
17 03/25/25 Tue No class (makeup TBA)    
18 03/27/25 Thu RAID, integrity, device-mappers   HW1 due (Mon 3/31/2025 @ 11:59pm)
19 04/01/25 Tue Linux VFS, kernel internals    
20 04/03/25 Thu Linux VFS, kernel internals, [Use zoom link on piazza]    
21 04/08/25 Tue      
22 04/10/25 Thu      
23 (code) 04/15/25 Tue Linux VFS, kernel internals, zoom link on piazza]    
24 04/17/25 Thu Linux VFS, kernel internals, wrapfs [Use zoom link on piazza]    
25 04/22/25 Tue wrapfs code [Use zoom link on piazza] https://www.fsl.cs.stonybrook.edu/docs/linux-stacking/linux.pdf and https://www.fsl.cs.stonybrook.edu/docs/sipek-ols2007/sipek.pdf  
26 04/24/25 Thu wrapfs code [Use zoom link on piazza]    
27 04/29/25 Tue Solid State Storage (Flash SSDs) [in person class]    
28 05/01/25 Thu Solid State Storage (Flash SSDs) [in person class]    
29 05/06/25 Tue Network storage and file systems [in person class]    
30 05/08/25 Thu last class, Network storage and file systems [in person class]    
31 05/13/25 Tue final exam    


Last Updated: Tue Apr 29 18:19:53 2025