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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.
Ramakrishnan et al. (Mon,) studied this question.