Systems Support For Preemptive Disk Scheduling
White Papers This paper first lay out main design strategies to allow preemption of each component of a disk access - seek, rotation, and data transfer, namely, seek-splitting, JIT-seek, and chunking. Allowing higher-priority requests to preempt ongoing disk...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Novell Makes File System Software Change
News ReiserFS 3.6 is largely only being updated with bug fixes, but for Reiser4, the group is still "chunking out patches, fixing issues and generally cleaning the house", Lyamin said. Novell is changing the file system software used by default in its...
[October 13, 2006, 9:20]
