A nine year study of file system and storage benchmarking

ACM Transactions on Storage

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Traeger, Avishay ^a,c   Zadok, Erez ^a,c   Joukov, Nikolai ^b   Wright, Charles P ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarks; File systems; Storage systems

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX INTERACTIONS; FILE SYSTEMS; FUTURE PERFORMANCE; FUTURE WORK; I/O DEVICES; READ OPERATIONS; REAL WORLD; RESEARCH PAPERS; STORAGE SYSTEMS;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; MULTITASKING; OSMIUM; PAPER; RESEARCH; SET THEORY;

STORAGE (MATERIALS);

EID: 44849098947     PISSN: 15533077     EISSN: 15533093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1367829.1367831     Document Type: Article

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