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Garth Gibson

John Wilkes

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Abstract: In this position statement we outline the critical issues impacting storage access technology, our view of appropriate responses and our vision of the outcome of re-architecting storage access systems.

Categories and Subject Descriptors: B.4.0 [Input/Output and Data Communications]: General; C.0 [Computer Systems Organization]: General - System architectures, Systems specification methodology; D.4.2 [Operating Systems]: Storage Management - Allocation/deallocation strategies, Secondary Storage, Storage hierarchies; D.4.3 [Operating Systems]: File Systems Management - File organization, Maintenance; D.4.4 [Operating Systems]: Communications Management - Input/Output; D.4.5 [Operating Systems]: Reliability - Fault-tolerance; D.4.6 [Operating Systems]: Security and Protection - Access controls, Authentication; D.4.8 [Operating Systems]: Performance - Modeling and prediction, Monitors; H.2.7 [Database Management]: Database Administration; K.6.2 [Management of Computing and Information Systems]: Installation Management - Computing equipment management, Pricing and resource allocation; K.6.4 [Management of Computing and Information Systems]: System Management.

General Terms: Algorithms, Design, Management, Measurement, Performance, Reliability.

Additional Key Words and Phrases: I/O, communication, disk drives, secondary memory, network attached storage, storage management.

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Citation

Gibson, G., and Wilkes, J., 1996. Self-managing network-attached storage, Strategic Directions in Computing Research: Working Group on Storage I/O for Large-Scale Computing, Computing Surveys, 28A(4), December 1996, http://www.cs.duke.edu/~jsv/SDCR96-IO/GibsonWilkesIO/.

Submission date

June 14, 1996

Revision date (if any)

November 5, 1996

Acceptance date

October 31, 1996

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