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To: daniel_sobral@voga.com.br
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Subject: Re: Soft updates
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From: Bjoern Groenvall <bg@sics.se>
Date: 20 Feb 1998 13:50:01 +0100
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daniel_sobral@voga.com.br writes:

> Can anyone give me a reference about soft updates? I'm designing an
> application which has nothing to do with filesystems but I'm starting to
> face the same problems... Mathematical heavy references are fine.

you may start with

http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/index.html

Metadata Update Performance in File Systems

 and

Soft Updates: A Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in File Systems

Cheers,
Björn

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