Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!guy@CS.UCLA.EDU From: guy@CS.UCLA.EDU (Richard Guy) Newsgroups: comp.os.research Subject: Re: File system accesses Message-ID: <21195@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 16 Jan 90 20:14:23 GMT Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Organization: UCLA Lines: 27 Approved: comp-os-research@jupiter.ucsc.edu Three papers besides Ousterhout's come to mind: Kure, Oivind. "Optimization of File Migration in Distributed Systems," UCBerkeley Tech Report UCB/CSD 88/413, April, 1988. [Dissertation; 203 pages; ~100 references; uses same trace data as Smith's disk cache paper in TOCS 3:3] Floyd, Rick. "Short-Term File Reference Patterns in a UNIX Environment," Univ of Rochester, CSD Tech Report TR 177, March, 1986. [79 pages; stratified by file type, user] Floyd, Rick. "Directory Reference Patterns in a UNIX Environment," Univ of Rochester, CSD Tech Report TR 179, August, 1986. [79 pages; stratified by file type, user] All three should be readily available from their originating departments. Kure's work is based on commercial IBM 360/370 systems; Floyd's work is from an academic 4.2BSD in a CSD environment. richard ---------- Richard Guy UCLA Computer Science Department guy@cs.ucla.edu