Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memo...
Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher ...
The Logical Disk (LD) defines a new interface to disk storage that separates file management and disk management by using logical block numbers and block lists. The LD interface...
Wiebren de Jonge, M. Frans Kaashoek, Wilson C. Hsi...
: Traditional methods of digital forensics analyze a static disk image--a bitstream copy of a disk created while the system is offline. Recent trends--including greatly increased d...
Checkpointing is a widely used mechanism for supporting fault tolerance, but notorious in its high-cost disk access. The idea of memory-based checkpointing has been extensively stu...
Disk drive manufacturers are putting increasingly larger built-in caches into disk drives. Today, 2 MB buffers are common on low-end retail IDE/ATA drives, and some SCSI drives ar...