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Disk Shadowing
Summary: Disk shadowing maintains identical disk images on multiple devices to improve reliability and availability. An analytic model shows intelligent scheduling enables parallel reads and reduces random-read seek time, with seek time decreasing as disk count grows.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 7863
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 1988
- Pagerank
- 0.00057303824
- Overall Rank
- 75 | 99.49%
- DOI
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 24 of 24 citing papers.
| Rank |
Citing Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 50 |
A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) |
1988 |
SIGMOD |
0.00067394827 |
| 464 |
A Case for Fractured Mirrors |
2002 |
VLDB |
0.0002245871 |
| 2,043 |
Priority-Hints: An Algorithm for Priority-Based Buffer Management |
1990 |
VLDB |
9.695642e-05 |
| 2,089 |
Active Storage For Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia |
1998 |
VLDB |
9.5657612e-05 |
| 2,467 |
Parity Striping of Disc Arrays: Low-Cost Reliable Storage with Acceptable Throughput |
1990 |
VLDB |
8.7495666e-05 |
| 2,858 |
Priority in DBMS Resource Scheduling |
1989 |
VLDB |
8.0008765e-05 |
| 3,181 |
Partially Preemptible Hash Joins |
1993 |
SIGMOD |
7.4283072e-05 |
| 3,756 |
Write-Only Disk Caches |
1990 |
SIGMOD |
6.7841272e-05 |
| 3,796 |
Fault Tolerant Design of Multimedia Servers |
1995 |
SIGMOD |
6.760036e-05 |
| 4,022 |
Dynamic Resource Brokering for Multi-User Query Execution |
1995 |
SIGMOD |
6.5215748e-05 |
| 4,068 |
A Comparison Of High-Availability Media Recovery Techniques |
1989 |
SIGMOD |
6.4791696e-05 |
| 4,149 |
Memory-Contention Responsive Hash Joins |
1994 |
VLDB |
6.4078379e-05 |
| 4,741 |
Memory-Adaptive External Sorting |
1993 |
VLDB |
5.95905e-05 |
| 4,781 |
On Parallel Execution Of Multiple Pipelined Hash Joins |
1994 |
SIGMOD |
5.9261504e-05 |
| 4,841 |
Doubly Distorted Mirrors |
1993 |
SIGMOD |
5.8839366e-05 |
| 4,993 |
Dynamic File Allocation in Disk Arrays |
1991 |
SIGMOD |
5.7818647e-05 |
| 6,030 |
Disk Mirroring with Alternating Deferred Updates |
1993 |
VLDB |
5.2415551e-05 |
| 7,068 |
Managing Memory For Real-Time Queries |
1994 |
SIGMOD |
4.8438369e-05 |
| 7,528 |
Comparing Rebuild Algorithms for Mirrored and RAID5 Disk Arrays |
1993 |
SIGMOD |
4.7180617e-05 |
| 12,004 |
Fatman: Cost-saving and reliable archival storage based on volunteer resources |
2014 |
VLDB |
4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,667 |
StorHouse Metanoia - New Applications for Database, Storage & Data Warehousing |
2001 |
SIGMOD |
4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,722 |
Active Storage Hierarchy, Database Systems and Applications – Socratic Exegesis |
1999 |
VLDB |
4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,823 |
Optimal Response Time Retrieval of Replicated Data |
1994 |
PODS |
4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,883 |
Analysis of Disk Arm Movement for Large Sequential Reads (Extended Abstract) |
1992 |
PODS |
4.1945683e-05 |
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