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DRBoost: Boosting Degraded Read Performance in MSR-Coded Storage Clusters

Talkat FAST '26 · 2026-02-24..02-26· [distributed-systems]
name:Xiao Niu
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name:Zhiyue Li
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name:Sijie Cai
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DRBoost implements partial-chunk reconstruction, a reconstruction-friendly coding layout, and a fragmentation-free storage layout and integrates into Ceph. A testbed on Alibaba Cloud with 30 storage and 10 client nodes runs real traces from Alibaba, IBM, and Facebook. Results show degraded-read latency drops by 2.45–89.2× and IO amplification by 24.6–557×; per-technique gains are roughly 72.3×, 4.9×, and 1.2×, and normal reads see no performance loss.

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  1. 0:00DRBoost and MSR-coded storage
  2. 1:22Erasure coding trade-offs
  3. 2:05MSR codes subpacketization
  4. 3:53Granularity mismatch in workloads
  5. 5:16Degraded read challenges
  6. 6:40DRBoost design decoupling
  7. 7:43Partial chunk reconstruction
  8. 9:30Reconstruction-friendly layouts
  9. 12:24Fragmentation-free layout
  10. 13:29Metadata and IO optimizations
  11. 14:13Evaluation setup and traces
  12. 15:16Performance improvements
  13. 16:21Conclusion and future
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