@InProceedings{bitton:schedule, author = {Dina Bitton}, title = {Arm Scheduling in Shadowed Disks}, booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE Compcon}, year = {1989}, month = {Spring}, pages = {132--136}, keywords = {parallel I/O, disk shadowing, reliability, disk mirroring, disk optimization, pario-bib}, comment = {Goes further than bitton:shadow. Uses simulation to verify results from that paper, which were expressions for the expected seek distance of shadowed disks, using shortest-seek-time arm scheduling. Problem is her assumption that arm positions stay independent, in the face of correlating effects like writes, which move all arms to the same place. Simulations match model only barely, and only in some cases. Anyway, shadowed disks can improve performance for workloads more than 60 or 70\% reads.} }