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Page cache

Known as: Buffer cache, Cache, Disk page 
In computing, a page cache, sometimes also called disk cache, is a transparent cache for the pages originating from a secondary storage device such… 
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Computer memoryMemory management

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Unioning of the buffer cache and journaling layers with non-volatile memory
Journaling techniques are widely used in modern file systems as they provide high reliability and fast recovery from system… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
BPLRU: A Buffer Management Scheme for Improving Random Writes in Flash Storage
Flash memory has become the most important storage media in mobile devices, and is beginning to replace hard disks in desktop… 
2007
2007
Providing Quality of Service Support in Object-Based File System
Bourbon is a quality of service framework designed to work with the Ceph object-based storage system. Ceph is a highly scalable… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Improving file system reliability with I/O shepherding
We introduce a new reliability infrastructure for file systems called I/O shepherding. I/O shepherding allows a file system… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Semantic Caching and Query Processing
Semantic caching is very attractive for use in distributed systems due to the reduced network traffic and the improved response… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Cryptographic File Systems Performance: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Securing data is more important than ever, yet cryptographic file systems still have not received wide use. One barrier to the… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Unifying File System Protection
This paper describes an efficient and elegant architecture for unifying the meta-data protection of journaling file systems with… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-Server Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems
In the engineering and scientific marketplaces, the workstation-server model of computing is emerging as the standard of the… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
A performance analysis of the gamma database machine
This paper presents the results of an initial performance evaluation of the Gamma database machine. In our experiments we… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Disk cache—miss ratio analysis and design considerations
The current trend of computer system technology is toward CPUs with rapidly increasing processing power and toward disk drives of… 
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