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NCA
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Improved Result Ranking in P2P File-Sharing Systems by Probing for Metadata
One of the reasons that search performance of peerto-peer file-sharing systems is poor is that results are poorly described, hurting the client’s ability to rank them. This is a...
Wai Gen Yee, Linh Thai Nguyen, Ophir Frieder
FAST
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A Five-Year Study of File-System Metadata
For five years, we collected annual snapshots of filesystem metadata from over 60,000 Windows PC file systems in a large corporation. In this paper, we use these snapshots to s...
Nitin Agrawal, William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur...
EMSOFT
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Reliability mechanisms for file systems using non-volatile memory as a metadata store
Portable systems such as cell phones and portable media players commonly use non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) to hold all of their data and metadata, and larger systems can store metadata...
Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller
FAST
2011
12 years 11 months ago
A Study of Practical Deduplication
We collected file system content data from 857 desktop computers at Microsoft over a span of 4 weeks. We analyzed the data to determine the relative efficacy of data deduplication...
Dutch T. Meyer, William J. Bolosky