The idealdistributed file system wouldprovide all its userswith coherent,shared access tothe samesetoffiles,yetwould be arbitrarily scalable to provide more storage space and hi...
Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Timothy Mann, Edward K. ...
Mobile computers such as notebooks, subnotebooks, and palmtops require low weight, low power consumption, and good interactive performance. These requirements impose many challeng...
Storage systems such as file systems, databases, and RAID systems have a simple, basic contract: you give them data, they do not lose or corrupt it. Often they store the only copy...
The access patterns performed by disk-intensive applications vary widely, from simple contiguous reads or writes through an entire file to completely unpredictable random access....
Dennis Dalessandro, Ananth Devulapalli, Pete Wycko...
With the increasing storage capacity of personal computing devices, the problems of information overload and information fragmentation become apparent on users’ desktops. For the...