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Sync (Unix)

Known as: Fsync, Sync 
sync is a standard system call in the Unix operating system, which commits to disk all data in the kernel filesystem buffers, i.e., data which has… (More)
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2017
2017
iJournaling: Fine-Grained Journaling for Improving the Latency of Fsync System Call
For data durability, many applications rely on synchronous operations such as an fsync() system call. However, latency-sensitive… (More)
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2016
2016
Eager Synching: A Selective Logging Strategy for Fast fsync() on Flash-Based Android Devices
Flash storage has been a standard component in Android devices. Recent research has reported that application data management in… (More)
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2016
2016
Improving Performance of Cloud Key-Value Storage Using Flushing Optimization
Key-value store is an essential component with an increasing demand in many scale-out environments, including social networks… (More)
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2016
2016
FS-LRU: A page cache algorithm for eliminating fsync write on mobile devices
In mobile environments, frequent fsync system calls negatively impact both performance and endurance of NAND-based storage. In… (More)
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2015
2015
Failure-Atomic Updates of Application Data in a Linux File System
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a file system mechanism that protects the integrity of application data… (More)
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2014
2014
Resolving journaling of journal anomaly in android I/O: multi-version B-tree with lazy split
Misaligned interaction between SQLite and EXT4 of the Android I/O stack yields excessive random writes. In this work, we… (More)
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2014
2014
Per-block-group journaling for improving fsync response time
The journaling is indispensable to the file systems of battery-backed consumer devices. It can cope with sudden power failures… (More)
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2013
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2013
I/O Stack Optimization for Smartphones
The Android I/O stack consists of elaborate and mature components (SQLite, the EXT4 filesystem, interruptdriven I/O, and NAND… (More)
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2012
2012
The Power of Lights: Synchronizing Asynchronous Robots Using Visible Bits
In this paper we study the power of using lights, i.e. visible external memory, for distributed computation by autonomous robots… (More)
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1992
1992
LIBTP: Portable, Modular Transactions for UNIX1
Transactions provide a useful programming paradigm for maintaining logical consistency, arbitrating concurrent access, and… (More)
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