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From: siegel@cs.cornell.edu (Alexander Siegel)
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Subject: Re: File system accesses
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In article <21155@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> lm@snafu.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
>
>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 is a list of 4 such papers that I know about in bibtex format.
The last one may be very useful to you.

@inproceedings{ochkkt:refpat,
  author="John K. Ousterhout and Herve Da Costa and David Harrison and
John A. Kunze and Mike Kupfer and James G. Thompson",
  title="{A} {T}race-{D}riven {A}nalysis of the {UNIX} 4.2 {BSD}
{F}ile {S}ystem",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Symposium on
Operating Systems Principles",
  year=1985,
  pages="15--24",
  organization="ACM",
  month=dec,
  note="Order no. 534850"
}

@techreport{rf:refpat,
  title="{S}hort-{T}erm {F}ile {R}eference {P}atterns in a {UNIX}
{E}nvironment",
  author="Rick Floyd",
  year=1986,
  month=mar,
  institution="University of Rochester",
  number=177
}

@techreport{rf:dirrefpat,
  title="{D}irectory {R}eference {P}atterns in a {UNIX} {E}nvironment",
  author="Rick Floyd",
  year=1986,
  month=aug,
  institution="University of Rochester",
  number=179
}

@techreport{cs:filepatt,
  title="{F}ile {A}ccess {P}atterns",
  author="Carl Staelin",
  institution="Department of Computer Science at Princeton
University",
  year="1988",
  month=sep,
  number="CS-TR-179-88"
}
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