Hot Topic: Enabling Cross-Layer Optimizations in Storage Systems with Custom Metadata
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Today, several data-storage systems allow applications to create and manage custom metadata to improve data search and navigability in large-scale storage systems. Our thesis is that, besides improving search and navigability, custom metadata can also serve as a two-way communication mechanism between applications and the storage layer to enable cross-layer optimizations in a uniform, application-independent and incremental fashion.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008