Copy-on-write

Known as: Copy on write, Cow (disambiguation), Implicit sharing

Copy-on-write (COW), sometimes referred to as implicit sharing or shadowing, is a resource management technique used in computer programming to…

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2016

Copy-on-write virtual disks (e.g., qcow2 images) provide many useful features like snapshot, de-duplication, and full-disk…

2013

Versioning file systems are widely used in modern computer systems as they provide system recovery and old data access functions…

2012

2011

Network providers are challenged by new requirements for fast and error-free service turn-up. Existing approaches to…

2011

Heterogeneous Disk Arrays (HDAs) allow resource sharing of their hardware by multiple RAID levels. RAID1 (mirrored disks) and…

2009

Developing write-sharing applications is challenging. Remote and offline data sharing are increasingly important. We propose a…

2008

Platform and resource virtualization is evolving as an enabling technology to consolidate servers and to simplify the management…

2002

Dynamic composition of services from components at runtime can help to provide flexible service infrastructures, but requires…

2000

Dialogical drama with puppets is a specific method of revealing basic cultural values for preschool children. For this study, an…

1992

The caches within a multiprocessor typically use either a write-invalidate protocol or a write-update protocol to maintain…