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Better I/O Through Byte-Addressable, Persistent Memory † Jeremy Condit Edmund B. Nightingale Christopher Frost Microsoft Research Microsoft Research UCLA Engin Ipek Benjamin Lee Doug Burger Derrick Coetzee Microsoft Research Microsoft Research Microsoft Research Microsoft Research ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption For decades, computer systems have been faced with a trade-off that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. between volatile and non-volatile storage. All persistent data must However, new byte-addressable, persistent memory technologies eventually be stored on non-volatile media such as disk or flash, but such as phase change memory (PCM) offer fast, fine-grained access since these devices support only slow, bulk data transfers, persistent to persistent storage. data must be temporarily buffered in fast, byte-addressable DRAM. In this paper, we present a file system and a hardware archi- Unfortunately, data that resides only in volatile memory can be lost tecture that are designed around the properties of persistent, byte- during a crash or a power failure, which means that existing storage addressable memory. Our file system, BPFS, uses a new technique systems often sacrific