Meghan McClelland

Versity has big news – today we open sourced our next generation archiving filesystem, ScoutFS. Background As large archive sites around the world plan their future data storage systems, one of the key areas of concern is the scalability of the namespace.  Data collections with over one billion files become difficult to manage with current technology …

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Versity’s most recent VSM 1.6.0 release introduces several new types of checksum algorithms, which are used to ensure data correctness. It inspired us to step back and think about what checksums are, why people use different checksum algorithms, and the role they play in long term data archiving. Introducing checksums Checksums are basically a small piece of …

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