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...
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...
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...
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...