@InProceedings{ArrantssoVinter03, title = "{T}he {G}rid {B}lock {D}evice", author= "Arrantsson, Bardur and Vinter, Brian", editor= "Broenink, Jan F. and Hilderink, Gerald H.", pages = "37--48", booktitle= "{C}ommunicating {P}rocess {A}rchitectures 2003", isbn= "1 58603 381 6", year= "2003", month= "sep", abstract= "In this paper we propose a distributed, replicated block device for The Gridbased on the the replication algorithm of Y. Amir[1]. The end goal is to supportapplication-specified semantics, both wrt. replication strategy and the consistencymodel used for reads and writes.We list the proposed features of the Grid Block Device and discuss various methodsof implementation." }