: NAND flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) are increasingly being deployed in storage systems at different levels such as buffer-caches and even secondary storage. However, the ...
Application launch performance is of great importance to system platform developers and vendors as it greatly affects the degree of users’ satisfaction. The single most effectiv...
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Benchmarking file and storage systems on large filesystem images is important, but difficult and often infeasible. Typically, running benchmarks on such large disk setups is a ...
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Previous approaches to RAID scaling either require a very large amount of data to be migrated, or cannot tolerate multiple disk additions without resulting in disk imbalance. In t...
Multi-tier systems that combine SSDs with SAS/FC and/or SATA disks mitigate the capital cost burden of SSDs, while benefiting from their superior I/O performance per unit cost an...
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