FlashTier: A lightweight, consistent and durable storage cache

EuroSys'12 - Proceedings of the EuroSys 2012 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 267-280

  Saxena, Mohit ^a   Swift, Michael M ^a   Zhang, Yiying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Device interface; Durability; Solid state cache

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS SPACE; ADDRESS TRANSLATION; CACHE BEHAVIOR; CACHE BLOCKS; CACHE CONSISTENCY; CACHE DATA; CACHE MANAGER; CACHED DATA; CONSISTENCY; DATA BLOCKS; DEVICE INTERFACES; DISK REPLACEMENT; FLASH DEVICES; GARBAGE COLLECTION; HIGH-CAPACITY; HIGH-SPEED; LOW-LATENCY; MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE; SOLID-STATE CACHE; SOLID-STATE DRIVES; SOLID-STATE STORAGE; STORAGE CACHES; STORAGE HIERARCHY; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DURABILITY; REFUSE COLLECTION;

MANAGERS;

EID: 84860598262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2168836.2168863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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