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From: lm@snafu.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
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Subject: File system accesses
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I'm looking for a recent paper that can give me some idea of how long
files live.  In particular, suppose I were to delay writes for N 
seconds.  How many writes would never go to disk.  

I think Ousterhout has such a paper, anyone know for sure?

[ Here's the Ousterhout citation, I'd be interested in others.  --DL ]

@INPROCEEDINGS(ouster:bsd,
	AUTHOR		= "Ousterhout, J. and H. D{a~C}osta and D. Harrison
			and J. Kunze and M. Kupfer and J. Thompson",
	TITLE		= "A Trace-Driven Analysis of the {UNIX}
			4.2 {BSD} File System",
	BOOKTITLE	= "Proceedings of the $10^{\rm th}$ {S}ymposium on
			{O}perating {S}ystem {P}rinciples",
	ADDRESS		= "Orcas Island, Washington",
	YEAR		= 1985,
	MONTH		= dec,
	ORGANIZATION	= "ACM",
	PAGES		= "15--24"
)

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