Traditional file systems versus DualFS: A performance comparison approach

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E87-D, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1703-1711

  Piernas, Juan ^a   Cortes, Toni ^b   García, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data and meta data separation; DualFS; File systems' comparison; Journaling; Storage devices

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; CACHE MEMORY; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DUALFS; FILE SYSTEMS; JOURNALING; META-DATA SEPARATION;

METADATA;

EID: 3142713656     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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