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From: carla@helianthus.cs.duke.edu (Carla Ellis)
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Subject: Re: File system accesses
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Date: 16 Jan 90 15:45:34 GMT
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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.

Many of the results in the tech report by Rick Floyd 
(cited in an earlier posting from Alexander Siegel)
have appeared recently in a journal article.

@article{rf:dirrefpat,
  title="Directory Reference Patterns in Hierarchical File Systems",
  author="Richard Floyd and Carla Ellis",
  year=1989,
  month=jun,
  journal="IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering",
  volume="1",
  number="2",
  pages="238-247"
  }