We present a distributed and recoverable file system called Afterlife that only requires a single replicated log to recover from failures in both the file system layer and the storage layer. Based on this unified log, we devise recovery procedures for both file server and block server failures that can run as background processes while the file system continues serving incoming requests. Batch ...

Abstract This paper argues that at First Principles 2.3.6 Origen is responding to Gnostics who used a particular reading of Plato’s myths about the afterlife justify their own belief elect will go after death into an incorporeal state. It examines (1) use terms idea and phantasia in commentary on Phaedo; (2) evidence for Origen’s knowledge such commentary; (3) which allegedly shows himself beli...

Ancient Egyptian funerary texts have traditionally been read as providing detailed, literal descriptions of afterlife beliefs, but various aspects this view begun to be questioned in recent research. The present article reviews such contributions contrast the classical established by Kurt Sethe (1931), arguing that it is possible several respects extend their stances and conclusions. resulting ...