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From: scc@cl.cam.ac.uk (Stephen Crawley)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Unix File System Performance
Message-ID: <1069@jenny.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 19:01:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  2 19:01:58 1987
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Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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Summary: Look at Bob Hagman's SOSP paper
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In article <7075@felix.UUCP> martin@felix.UUCP (Martin McKendry) writes:
>Given that there are many different disk formats and access
>algorithms possible for a Unix file system, how do you decide
>what improvements are best for a given system?  And having decided
>how to invest your engineering dollars, how do you quantify
>the improvements you have made?  [...]

Bob Hagman of Xerox PARC has done some very interesting work in this
area.  I believe that he will be presenting a paper at this year's 
SOSP conference on his redesign of the Cedar file system.  I have 
mislaid my copy of his paper, so I'll say no more except that it is
very pertinent.

-- Steve