Caching and writeback policies in parallel file systems
D Kotz, CS Ellis - Proceedings of the Third IEEE Symposium on …, 1991 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
D Kotz, CS Ellis
Proceedings of the Third IEEE Symposium on Parallel and …, 1991•ieeexplore.ieee.orgImprovements in the processing speed of multiprocessors are outpacing improvements in
the speed of disk hardware. Parallel disk I/O subsystems have been proposed as one way to
close the gap between processor and disk speeds. Such parallel disk systems require
parallel file system software to avoid performance-limiting bottlenecks. The authors discuss
cache management techniques that can be used in a parallel file system implementation.
The authors examine several writeback policies, and give results of experiments that test …
the speed of disk hardware. Parallel disk I/O subsystems have been proposed as one way to
close the gap between processor and disk speeds. Such parallel disk systems require
parallel file system software to avoid performance-limiting bottlenecks. The authors discuss
cache management techniques that can be used in a parallel file system implementation.
The authors examine several writeback policies, and give results of experiments that test …
Improvements in the processing speed of multiprocessors are outpacing improvements in the speed of disk hardware. Parallel disk I/O subsystems have been proposed as one way to close the gap between processor and disk speeds. Such parallel disk systems require parallel file system software to avoid performance-limiting bottlenecks. The authors discuss cache management techniques that can be used in a parallel file system implementation. The authors examine several writeback policies, and give results of experiments that test their performance.< >
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