Improving the performance of the file system is becoming increasingly important to alleviate the effect of I/O bottlenecks in computer systems. To design changes to an existing file system or to architect a new file system it is important to understand current usage patterns. In this paper we analyze file I/O traces of several existing production computer sytems to understand file access behavior.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Ramakrishnan et al. (1992) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: