| date | topic | main reading | supplemental reading | leader |
| Jan 7 | course overview and logistics | Pierce | ||
| Jan 9 | file systems (review) | Hennessy and Patterson; McKusick et al. | Thompson | Pierce |
| Jan 14 | log-structured file systems | Rosenblum and Ousterhout | McVoy and Kleiman | Yang |
| Jan 16 | transactions (review) | Bernstein, Hadzilacos, and Goodman, chapter 2 | Yang | |
| Jan 21 | MLK day: no class | |||
| Jan 23 | ``advanced transactions'' | Barghouti and Kaiser, sections 5 and 6 | Weikum and Vossen, chapter 3 | Yang |
| Jan 28 | the vnode API | Kleiman | Yang | |
| Jan 30 | semantic file systems | Gifford et al. | Rao | |
| Feb 4 | distributed file systems | Satyanarayanan chapter (to 14.4) & Sandberg et al. | Satyanarayanan survey | Pizzaro |
| Feb 6 | distributed file systems | Liskov et al. & Nelson et al. | Bernadskiy | |
| Feb 11 | distributed databases | Davidson et al. | Yang | |
| Feb 13 | Coda | Satyanarayanan (14.5 to end) & Kistler and Satya | Chaudhuri | |
| Feb 18 | Locus | Walker et al. | Mueller et al. | Yang |
| Feb 20 | gossiping and epidemics | Demers et al. (93) & Fischer and Michael | Pierce | |
| Feb 25 | Ficus | Guy et al. | Guy et al. (90), Page et al. | Rao |
| Feb 27 | optimistic ADTs | Herlihy | Pizzaro | |
| Mar 4 | Freenet | Clarke et al. | Kazaa, Morpheus, Gnutella | LaBouliere |
| Mar 6 | Mariposa project proposals | Stonebraker et al. | Miller and Drexler | Segall |
| Mar 11 | Spring break: no class | |||
| Mar 13 | Spring break: no class | |||
| Mar 18 | Unison | Balasubramaniam and Pierce (plus newer Unison spec) | Ramsey and Csirmaz, Jim et al | Bernadskiy |
| Mar 20 | Fileteller and DiscFS | Ioannidis et al, Miltchev et al | Ioannidis (guest) | |
| Mar 25 | Bayou | Edwards et al. | Terry et al., (two papers) | Chaudhuri |
| Mar 27 | IceCube mid-term reports | Kermarrec et al. | Rao | |
| Apr 1 | more on merging | Munson and Dewan | Pizzaro | |
| Apr 3 | diff and diff3 | Myers | diff3 sources | Bernadskiy |
| Apr 8 | 3DM | Lindholm, chapters 9-11 (skim others) | Tancred, chapters 6-8 | LaBouliere |
| Apr 10 | project presentations | - | Chaudhuri | |
| Apr 15 | project presentations | - | ||
| Apr 17 | presentations | - (last class) | ||
| Apr 20 | no class, but final projects due | - |