Software—Practice & Experience
File system usage in Windows NT 4.0
Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Using free web storage for data backup
Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Storage security and survivability
Exploring the performance impact of stripe size on network attached storage systems
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
Exploring the effect of directory depth on file access for FAT and NTFS file systems
ISTASC'08 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Systems theory and scientific computation
Exploiting the performance gains of modern disk drives by enhancing data locality
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Deconstructing Network Attached Storage systems
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
DFS: A file system for virtualized flash storage
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
DFS: a file system for virtualized flash storage
FAST'10 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on File and storage technologies
PRESIDIO: A Framework for Efficient Archival Data Storage
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Efficiently identifying working sets in block I/O streams
Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Systems and Storage
HIFS: history independence for file systems
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSAC conference on Computer & communications security
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Knowledge of the file size distribution is needed to optimize file system design. In particular, if all the files are small, the disk block size should be small, too, to avoid wasting too large a fraction of the disk. On the other hand, if files are generally large, choosing a large block size is good since it leads to more efficient transfers. Only by knowing the file size distribution can reasonable choices be made. In 1984, we published the file size distribution for a university computer science department. We have now made the same measurements 20 years later to see how file sizes have changed. In short, the median file size has more than doubled (from 1080 bytes to 2475 bytes), but large files still dominate the storage requirements.