Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:02:20 -0800 | From | (Jim Gettys) | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: disk head scheduling |
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> From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 12:16:40 -0800 (PST) > To: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: disk head scheduling > ----- > > > > Was anyone else on this mailing list present and awake enough to remember > > the gist of this paper? > > There were several papers and works in progress at OSDI 99 that dealt > closely to this topic. It was a very interesting conference from this > perspective. > > There was: > "Automatic I/O Hint Generation Through Speculative Execution, > Fay Chang, Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University" > > Then there was: > Virtual Log Based File Systems for a Programmable Disk > Randolph Y. Wang, University of California, Berkeley; Thomas E. > Anderson, University of Washington, Seattle; David A. Patterson, > University of California, Berkeley > > > Then there was "Enriching the File System-Storage System Interface" > work-in-progress (Drew Roselli, Jeanna Neefe Matthews, Tom Anderson > (drew@cs.berkeley.edu) which talked about informing the storage subsystem > with info hints as for file block lifetime, etc... I think this might have > been what you were thinking of?
Yes, I think this was what I remember not paying proper attention to... It is certainly one of these three, but I think it was this last one I remember...
In my defense, I had just (mostly) recovered from serious bronchitis, but was still having periods of feeling crummy; and as I had been giving talks the previous two days to large audiences, I was just happy it was a day when I didn't have to be "on", but could imitate a vegetable or mineral, which I did that day, and crashed in my hotel room all evening...
- Jim
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