Elephant : the file system that never forgets

Modern file systems associate the deletion of a file with the immediate release of storage, and file writes with the irrevocable change of file contents. We argue that this behavior is a relic of the past, when disk storage was a scarce resource. Today, large cheap disks make it possible for the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santry, Douglas J.
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9748