Hajkazemi, Mohammad HosseinAschenbrenner, VojtechAbdi, ManiaKaynar, Emine UgurMossayebzadeh, AminKrieger, OrranDesnoyers, Peter2023-03-132023-03-132023-03-132022-01-0110.1145/3492321.3524271https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/195843WOS:000926506800038With the increasing dominance of SSDs for local storage, today's network mounted virtual disks can no longer offer competitive performance. We propose a Log-Structured Virtual Disk (LSVD) that couples log-structured approaches at both the cache and storage layer to provide a virtual disk on top of S3-like storage. Both cache and backend store are order-preserving, enabling LSVD to provide strong consistency guarantees in case of failure. Our prototype demonstrates that the approach preserves all the advantages of virtual disks, while offering dramatic performance improvements over not only commonly used virtual disks, but the same disks combined with inconsistent (i.e. unsafe) local caching.Computer Science, Hardware & ArchitectureComputer Science, Information SystemsComputer Science, Software EngineeringComputer Science, Theory & MethodsComputer Sciencecloud computingvirtual diskblock storagetext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper