The design and implementation of a DCD device driver for Unix

Proceedings of the 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Nightingale, Tycho ^a   Hu, Yiming ^b   Yang, Qing ^a  

^a University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DISK I/O ARCHITECTURE; EXISTING SYSTEMS; LOG STRUCTURED FILE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM EXECUTION; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; RECENT RESEARCHES; TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85084163875     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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