A comparison of file system workloads

2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Roselli, Drew ^a,b   Lorch, Jacob R ^a,b   Anderson, Thomas E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; DISK I/O; FILE ACCESS; FILE SYSTEMS; MEMORY MAP; PROCESSOR SPEED; PRODUCTION SYSTEM;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85084163129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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