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SOSP
1993
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
The Logical Disk: A New Approach to Improving File Systems
The Logical Disk (LD) defines a new interface to disk storage that separates file management and disk management by using logical block numbers and block lists. The LD interface...
Wiebren de Jonge, M. Frans Kaashoek, Wilson C. Hsi...
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Towards Higher Disk Head Utilization: Extracting "Free" Bandwidth from Busy Disk Drives
Freeblock scheduling is a new approach to utilizing more of disks' potential media bandwidths. By filling rotational latency periods with useful media transfers, 20{50% of a ...
Christopher R. Lumb, Jiri Schindler, Gregory R. Ga...
MSS
1999
IEEE
203views Hardware» more  MSS 1999»
13 years 9 months ago
Improved Adaptive Replacement Algorithm for Disk-Caches in HSM Systems
With an ever increasing amount of data to store, hierarchical storage management (HSM) systems must still use tape for tertiary storage. A disk cache is used to reduce the access ...
Ulrich Hahn, Werner Dilling, Dietmar Kaletta
SIGMOD
1991
ACM
81views Database» more  SIGMOD 1991»
13 years 9 months ago
Multi-Disk B-trees
In this paper, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 we consider how to exploit multiple disks to improve the performance of B-tree ...
Bernhard Seeger, Per-Åke Larson
CCGRID
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
A Segment-Level Adaptive Data Layout Scheme for Improved Load Balance in Parallel File Systems
Abstract—Parallel file systems are designed to mask the everincreasing gap between CPU and disk speeds via parallel I/O processing. While they have become an indispensable compo...
Huaiming Song, Yanlong Yin, Xian-He Sun, Rajeev Th...