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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
- 7864
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 1988
- Pagerank
- 0.00057207258
- Overall Rank
- 76 | 99.48%
- DOI
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank |
Citing Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 50 |
A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) |
1988 |
SIGMOD |
0.00067287977 |
| 466 |
A Case for Fractured Mirrors |
2002 |
VLDB |
0.00022455567 |
| 2,047 |
Priority-Hints: An Algorithm for Priority-Based Buffer Management |
1990 |
VLDB |
9.6902821e-05 |
| 2,093 |
Active Storage For Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia |
1998 |
VLDB |
9.5570993e-05 |
| 2,464 |
Parity Striping of Disc Arrays: Low-Cost Reliable Storage with Acceptable Throughput |
1990 |
VLDB |
8.7436144e-05 |
| 2,866 |
Priority in DBMS Resource Scheduling |
1989 |
VLDB |
7.9935931e-05 |
| 3,185 |
Partially Preemptible Hash Joins |
1993 |
SIGMOD |
7.4241724e-05 |
| 3,774 |
Write-Only Disk Caches |
1990 |
SIGMOD |
6.7729038e-05 |
| 3,799 |
Fault Tolerant Design of Multimedia Servers |
1995 |
SIGMOD |
6.7535227e-05 |
| 4,027 |
Dynamic Resource Brokering for Multi-User Query Execution |
1995 |
SIGMOD |
6.51574e-05 |
| 4,071 |
A Comparison Of High-Availability Media Recovery Techniques |
1989 |
SIGMOD |
6.4729288e-05 |
| 4,149 |
Memory-Contention Responsive Hash Joins |
1994 |
VLDB |
6.4043572e-05 |
| 4,736 |
Memory-Adaptive External Sorting |
1993 |
VLDB |
5.9537256e-05 |
| 4,784 |
On Parallel Execution Of Multiple Pipelined Hash Joins |
1994 |
SIGMOD |
5.9205964e-05 |
| 4,841 |
Doubly Distorted Mirrors |
1993 |
SIGMOD |
5.8791892e-05 |
| 4,989 |
Dynamic File Allocation in Disk Arrays |
1991 |
SIGMOD |
5.7764146e-05 |
| 6,034 |
Disk Mirroring with Alternating Deferred Updates |
1993 |
VLDB |
5.2365238e-05 |
| 7,065 |
Managing Memory For Real-Time Queries |
1994 |
SIGMOD |
4.8391602e-05 |
| 7,527 |
Comparing Rebuild Algorithms for Mirrored and RAID5 Disk Arrays |
1993 |
SIGMOD |
4.7135369e-05 |
| 12,012 |
Fatman: Cost-saving and reliable archival storage based on volunteer resources |
2014 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,676 |
StorHouse Metanoia - New Applications for Database, Storage & Data Warehousing |
2001 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,731 |
Active Storage Hierarchy, Database Systems and Applications – Socratic Exegesis |
1999 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,832 |
Optimal Response Time Retrieval of Replicated Data |
1994 |
PODS |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,893 |
Analysis of Disk Arm Movement for Large Sequential Reads (Extended Abstract) |
1992 |
PODS |
4.1905499e-05 |
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