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LESS is More for I/O-Efficient Repairs in Erasure-Coded Storage

Talkat FAST '26 · 2026-02-24..02-26· [distributed-systems]
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name:Xiaolu Li
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LESS layers extended sub-stripes built from Reed-Solomon coding to reduce both data read and non‑contiguous seeks during single-block repair, implemented on Hadoop HDFS and tested on a local cluster and Sherman Cloud. Configurable sub-packetization (alpha) trades off data read vs number of nodes contacted: an example (n,k,alpha = 6,4,2) reads 25% less data than standard RS, about 30% of multi-block failures fall into extended-substripe cases that also speed recovery. layers extended sub-stripes configurable sub-packetization one seek per block

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  1. 0:00Erasure-coded storage repairs
  2. 1:02Drawbacks of traditional codes
  3. 3:32Motivation for IO-efficient repair
  4. 4:58Introducing LESS erasure codes
  5. 6:22LESS repair overhead
  6. 8:30LESS encoding process
  7. 10:19Single block repair in LESS
  8. 11:45Multi-block repair and RS properties
  9. 12:27LESS implementation and evaluation
  10. 13:49Performance gains results
  11. 14:54Conclusion and Q&A
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