Ruo-Xin Yang

RetainZ: Reclaim-Time-Aware Placement for AI Checkpoints on Zoned SSDs

Solid State Drives (SSDs) are becoming the dominant medium for performance-critical storage. Zoned Namespace (ZNS) SSDs are getting more and more attractive because sequential writes and explicit zone resets reduce address-mapping, over-provisioning, and internal garbage-collection costs. However, reclaiming space requ...