Deciding when to forget in the Elephant file system

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 110-123

  Santry, Douglas S ^a,c   Feeley, Michael J ^a   Hutchinson, Norman C ^a   Veitch, Alistair C ^b   Carton, Ross W ^a   Ofir, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Network Appliance Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE;

CHECK POINTING; FILE CONTENTS; FILE SYSTEMS; FREEBSD; SCARCE RESOURCES; USER FILES;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 47249105152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/319151.319159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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