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Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One

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We present an in-kernel disk prefetcher which uses speculative execution to determine what data an application is likely to require in the near future. By placing our design withi...

Keir Faser, Fay Chang

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NFS Tricks and Benchmarking Traps

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We describe two modiﬁcations to the FreeBSD 4.6 NFS server to increase read throughput by improving the read-ahead heuristic to deal with reordered requests and stride access pa...

Daniel Ellard, Margo I. Seltzer

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Building a Wireless Community Network in the Netherlands

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With the development of low cost hardware for wireless networking based on IEEE 802.11b, wireless networks are an emerging technology. Using these wireless techniques outdoors it ...

Rudi van Drunen, Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Jasper Koo...

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The CryptoGraphic Disk Driver

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We present the design and implementation of CGD, the CryptoGraphic Disk driver. CGD is a pseudo-device driver that sits below the buffer cache, and provides an encrypted view of a...

Roland C. Dowdeswell, John Ioannidis

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A Multi-User Virtual Machine

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Recent efforts aimed at improving the scalability of the JavaTM platform have focused primarily on the safe collocation of multiple applications in the virtual machine. This is of...

Grzegorz Czajkowski, Laurent Daynès, Ben Ti...

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Using Read-Copy-Update Techniques for System V IPC in the Linux 2.5 Kernel

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Read-copy update (RCU) allows lock-free read-only access to data structures that are concurrently modiﬁed on SMP systems. Despite the concurrent modiﬁcations, read-only access...

Andrea Arcangeli, Mingming Cao, Paul E. McKenney, ...

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Implementing a Clonable Network Stack in the FreeBSD Kernel

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Traditionally, UNIX operating systems have been equipped with monolithic network stack implementations,

Marko Zec

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Undo for Operators: Building an Undoable E-mail Store

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System operators play a critical role in maintaining server dependability yet lack powerful tools to help them do so. To help address this unfulfilled need, we describe Operator U...

Aaron B. Brown, David A. Patterson

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LISA
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Security Without Firewalls

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Abe Singer

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Virtual Appliances for Deploying and Maintaining Software

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This paper attempts to address the complexity of system administration by making the labor of applying software updates independent of the number of computers on which the softwar...

Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, David Brumley, Ramesh ...

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