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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 16 Feb 1996 23:03:59 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <4f9skh$2og@dyson.iquest.net> <4fg8fe$j9i@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <4fm2b1$ivs@park.uvsc.edu> <4fu70i$20q@pell.pell.chi.il.us>
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orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc) wrote:
>
> In article <4fm2b1$ivs@park.uvsc.edu>,
> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>
> >The best paper I have seen on this so far is Gregory R. Ganger
> >and Yale N. Pratt's paper "Metadata Update Performance in File
> >Systems", where they propose a mechanism they term "soft updates".
> >
> >A related paper, Eric H. Herrin II and Raphael A. Finkel's "The
> >Viva File System" goes into some detail on what constitutes an
> >idempotent vs. a non-idempotent operation, and where you must
> >guarantee order atomicity -- as does the UCB "SPRITE" paper.
>
>
> Where are these papers available?
On the Internet.
Oh, you mean you want their URLs... again.
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~ganger/papers/osdi94.ps.Z
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/CSE_TR_254_95.ps.Z
ftp://ftp.ms.uky.edu/pub/tech-reports/UK/cs/225-93.ps.gz
There they are...
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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