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Article #216Re: Disks that write w/o rot. latency
From: Michael Schmidt
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 21:48
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 21:48
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In article <3vqv6p$ifp@big.info.att.com>
bruce@allegra.tempo.att.com (Bruce K. Hillyer)
wrote:
> Using NVRAM to cache disk writes does not have the same properties
> as the "zero cost" write schemes described by John Wilkes. In
> particular, when blocks are flushed from NVRAM back to disk, they
> must be written "where they belong", whereas in the schemes
> described by Wilkes, the blocks may be written "wherever is
> quickest".
[...]
Sounds interesting. Would you please be so nice to give us some
pointers where to find/get the mentioned schemes of John Wilkes?
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