A file is not a file: Understanding the I/O behavior of apple desktop applications

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Harter, Tyler ^a   Dragga, Chris ^a   Vaughn, Michael ^a   Arpaci Dusseau, Andrea C ^a   Arpaci Dusseau, Remzi H ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Application performance; File systems; Measurement; Trace study

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; ATOMIC OPERATION; DESKTOP APPLICATIONS; FILE SYNCHRONIZATION; FILE SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; SEQUENTIAL ACCESS; STORAGE SYSTEMS; TRACE STUDY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; MEASUREMENTS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84866307312     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2324876.2324878     Document Type: Article

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