Issues in BBFS, a Broadband Filesystem

Advancements in networks and computers are fostering the development of new services and applications, but the data storage subsystems are an increasingly severe impediment. BBFS is a research effort to examine ways to accommodate the storage needs of communication- and computation- intensive applications. We are challenged by the real-time sensitivity of data such as multimedia video and audio, by gigabit data rates, and by data volumes ranging through terabytes and beyond.