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Logical disk

Known as: Logical device, VDisk 
A logical disk, logical volume or virtual disk (VD or vdisk for short) is a virtual device that provides an area of usable storage capacity on one or… 
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Address spaceComparison of boot loadersDisk aggregationDisk partitioning

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Computer data storageStorage virtualization

Papers overview

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2012
2012
Multi-level Selective Deduplication for VM Snapshots in Cloud Storage
In a virtualized cloud computing environment, frequent snapshot backup of virtual disks improves hosting reliability but storage… 
2007
2007
Secure file system versioning at the block level
In typical file systems, valuable data is vulnerable to being accidentally or maliciously deleted or overwritten. Versioning file… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Virtualization Aware File Systems: Getting Beyond the Limitations of Virtual Disks
Virtual disks are the main form of storage in today's virtual machine environments. They offer many attractive features… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Myriad: Cost-Effective Disaster Tolerance
This paper proposes a new approach for achieving disaster tolerance in large, geographically-distributed storage systems. The… 
2001
2001
Reconciling simplicity and realism in parallel disk models
2000
2000
Real-time disk scheduling in a mixed-media file system
This paper presents our real-time disk scheduler called the /spl Delta/L scheduler, which optimizes unscheduled best-effort disk… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Elephant: the file system that never forgets
Modern file systems associate the deletion of a file with the release of the storage associated with that file, and file writes… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
A Comparison of OS Extension Technologies
The current trend in operating systems research is to allow applications to dynamically extend the kernel to improve application… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
An online video placement policy based on bandwidth to space ratio (BSR)
In a video-on-demand server, resource reservation is required to guarantee continuous delivery. Hence any given storage device… 
1990
1990
Granularity and semantic level of replication in the Echo distributed file system
The choices for semantic level and granularity that have been made in the Echo distributed file system are examined. The primary… 
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