BibTeX for papers by David Kotz; for complete/updated list see https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/papers.html @InProceedings{kotz:writeback, author = {David Kotz and Carla Schlatter Ellis}, title = {{Caching and Writeback Policies in Parallel File Systems}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP)}}, year = 1991, month = {December}, pages = {60--67}, publisher = {IEEE}, copyright = {IEEE}, DOI = {10.1109/SPDP.1991.218296}, URL = {https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/kotz-writeback/index.html}, abstract = {Improvements in the processing speed of multiprocessors are outpacing improvements in the speed of disk hardware. Parallel disk I/O subsystems have been proposed as one way to close the gap between processor and disk speeds. Such parallel disk systems require parallel file system software to avoid performance-limiting bottlenecks. We discuss cache management techniques that can be used in a parallel file system implementation. We examine several writeback policies, and give results of experiments that test their performance.}, }