Measurement and analysis of large-scale network file system workloads

Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 213-226

  Leung, Andrew W ^a   Pasupathy, Shankar ^b   Goodson, Garth ^b   Miller, Ethan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Network Appliance Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE;

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT; FILE ACCESS PATTERNS; FINANCE DEPARTMENT; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; LARGE-SCALE STUDIES; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; NETWORK FILE SYSTEM; WORKLOAD CHARACTERISTICS;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84945511204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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