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…

2009

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

2009

Nowadays, the presence of cache hierarchies tends to be a common trend in processor architectures, even in hardware for real-time…

2008

Recently, system designers, especially in the field of product life-cycle management system start considering use of user memory…

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…