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Dm-x: Protecting volume-level integrity for cloud volumes and local block devices

  • Anrin Chakraborti
  • , Bhushan Jain
  • , Jan Kasiak
  • , Tao Zhang
  • , Donald Porter
  • , Radu Sion
  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

The verified boot feature in recent Android devices, which deploys dm-verity, has been overwhelmingly successful in eliminating the extremely popular Android smart phone rooting movement [25]. Unfortunately, dm-verity integrity guarantees are read-only and do not extend to writable volumes. This paper introduces a new device mapper, dm-x, that efficiently (fast) and reliably (metadata journaling) assures volume-level integrity for entire, writable volumes. In a direct disk setup, dm-x overheads are around 6-35% over ext4 on the raw volume while offering additional integrity guarantees. For cloud storage (Amazon EBS), dm-x overheads are negligible.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, APSys 2017
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)9781450351973
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2 2017
Event8th ACM Asia Pacific Conference on Systems, APSys 2017 - Mumbai, India
Duration: Sep 2 2017 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, APSys 2017

Conference

Conference8th ACM Asia Pacific Conference on Systems, APSys 2017
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityMumbai
Period09/2/17 → …

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