The reading list for the final exam consists of the following papers:

- Wee Teck Ng: Obtaining High-Performance for Storage Outsourcing
- Quinlann: A New Approach to Archival Storage (Venti)
- Saito: Manageability, Availability and Performance in Porcupine
- Kistler: Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System
- Dabek: Wide Area Cooperative Storage with CFS