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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 14 Feb 1996 18:49:54 -0800
Organization: By the Holy Claws of Klortho the Magnificent, this IS a fine morning!
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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?
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