Improving throughput for small disk requests with proximal I/O

Proceedings of FAST 2011: 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 133-147

  Schindler, Jiri ^a   Shete, Sandip ^a   Smith, Keith A ^a  

^a NetApp

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; FILE ORGANIZATION; STORAGE AS A SERVICE (STAAS);

DATA LAYOUTS; DISK BASED STORAGE; DISK LAYOUT; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; FILE SYSTEMS; RANDOM UPDATES; SYSTEM COSTS; WRITE CACHES;

FLASH MEMORY;

EID: 85077018239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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