Soft updates: A solution to the metadata update problem in file systems

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-153

  Ganger, Gregory R ^b   McKusick, Marshall Kirk ^c   Soules, Craig A N ^d   Patt, Yale N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C.4 Computer Systems Organization ; C.5.5 Computer System Implementation ; D.4.2 Operating Systems ; D.4.3 Operating Systems ; Performance of Systems Design studies; Reliability, availability, and serviceability; Servers; Storage Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005094356     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/350853.350863     Document Type: Article

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