SOSP2021

The Aurora Single Level Store Operating System

Emil Tsalapatis, Ryan Hancock, Tavian Barnes, Ali José Mashtizadeh

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Abstract

Applications on modern operating systems manage their ephemeral state in memory and persistent state on disk. Ensuring consistency between them is a source of significant developer effort and application bugs. We present the Aurora single level store, an OS that eliminates the distinction between ephemeral and persistent application state.