FAST
2003
14 years 1 months ago
2003
We present an analysis of a pair of NFS traces of contemporary email and research workloads. We show that although the research workload resembles previouslystudied workloads, the...
FAST
2003
14 years 1 months ago
2003
Allowing higher-priority requests to preempt ongoing disk IOs is of particular benefit to delay-sensitive multimedia and real-time systems. In this paper we propose Semi-preempti...
FAST
2003
14 years 1 months ago
2003
This paper sets out to clear up a misconception prominent in the storage community today, that SCSI disc drives and IDE (ATA) disc drives are the same technology internally, and d...
FAST
2003
14 years 1 months ago
2003
Excessive power consumption is a major barrier to the market acceptance of hard disks in mobile electronic devices. Studying and reducing power consumption, however, often involve...
FAST
2003
14 years 1 months ago
2003
We propose a practical and efficient method for adding security to network-attached disks (NADs). In contrast to previous work, our design requires no changes to the data layout ...
LISA
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
Spyware is a rapidly spreading problem for PC users causing significant impact on system stability and privacy concerns. It attaches to extensibility points in the system to ensur...
LISA
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
It is often difficult and time-consuming to manage computer `moves, adds, and changes' that take place in a switched, subnetted environment. It is even more difficult when th...
LISA
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
One ideal of configuration management is to specify only desired behavior in a high-level language, while an automatic configuration management system assures that behavior on an ...
LISA
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
Originally published at Usenix LISA 2004 conference. November 2004 Atlanta, Georiga, USA. Log analysis is an important way to keep track of computers and networks. The use of auto...
LISA
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
Server consolidation, which allows multiple workloads to run on the same system, has become increasingly important as a way to improve the utilization of computing resources and r...