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<em>This article is part of the </em><a href="https://medium.com/@alitech_2017/academic-alibaba-b56f4176a838" target="_blank"><strong><em>Academic Alibaba</em></strong></a><em> series and is taken from the paper entitled “PolarFS: An Ultra-low Latency and Failure Resilient Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Databases” by Wei Cao, Zhenjun Liu, Peng Wang, Sen Chen, Caifeng Zhu, Song Zheng, Yuhui Wang, and Guoqing Ma, accepted by VLDB 2018. The full paper can be read </em><a href="http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p1849-cao.pdf" target="_blank"><em>here</em></a><em>.</em>