— In broadcast disk systems, information is broadcasted in a shared medium. When a client needs an item from the disk, it waits until that item is broadcasted. The fundamental al...
Latent sector errors in disk drives affect only a few data sectors. They occur silently and are detected only when the affected area is accessed again. If a latent error is detect...
Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Ried...
By providing direct data transfer between storage and client, network-attached storage devices have the potential to improve scalability for existing distributed file systems (by...
Garth A. Gibson, David Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Fay W....
We provide a competitive analysis framework for online prefetching and buffer management algorithms in parallel I/O systems, using a read-once model of block references. This has ...
Rakesh D. Barve, Mahesh Kallahalla, Peter J. Varma...
Disk schedulers in current operating systems are generally work-conserving, i.e., they schedule a request as soon as the previous request has finished. Such schedulers often requ...