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From: keshav@ernie.berkeley.edu (Srinivasan Keshav)
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Subject: Sythetic file system workloads
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I am constructing a synthetic file system workload generator,  in
the  spirit  of  Satya's file system driver at CMU. The output of
the generator will be used by a file system simulator in order to
compare file caching policies in a distributed file system.

In order to generate file references, I need to look at file sys-
tem  traces  at  the level of file operations. Existing traces of
file system usage at this level have been  done  mainly  on  Unix
machines,  and  traces have been collected at a single node (John
Ousterhout, Jim Thompson @ Berkeley, Rick Floyd @ Rochester,Chris
Kent @ Purdue, Satya @ CMU, Williamson & Bunt @ Saskatchewan ).

I am interested in contacting other researchers with similar  in-
terests  to discuss the parameters in the workload model. I would
also like to get in touch with people collecting traces  of  file
operations on non Unix machines (IBM?), or on a network of works-
tations.

Any replies would be greatly appreciated.

S. Keshav

(keshav@ernie.berkeley.edu)