A garbage collector & free space compactor for the parallax storage system

Parallax is a distributed storage system for virtualized environments. It provides virtual disk abstractions for the consumption of virtual machines. Parallax’s design has been driven by emerging trends in virtualized deployments. The system makes use of Copy-on-Write mechanisms to provide primitive...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abdul-Amir, Mohammad
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33669