Disk Shadowing

Summary: Introduces disk shadowing as both a reliability mechanism and an I/O optimization. An analytic model shows intelligent scheduling across replicated disks enables parallel reads and monotonically reduces random-read seek time as replicas increase. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8054
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 0.00022768303
Overall Rank: 270 | 98.15%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Dina Bitton (University of Illinois Chicago)
2. Jim Gray (Tandem Computers)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bitton_vldb88,
        title = {{Disk Shadowing}},
        author = {Bitton, Dina and Gray, Jim},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '88},
        pages = {331},
        year = {1988}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 24 of 24 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
133	A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)	1988	SIGMOD	0.00030370315
394	A Case for Fractured Mirrors	2002	VLDB	0.00019306179
2,145	Priority-Hints: An Algorithm for Priority-Based Buffer Management	1990	VLDB	9.0846355e-05
2,426	Active Storage For Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia	1998	VLDB	8.5987569e-05
2,630	Parity Striping of Disc Arrays: Low-Cost Reliable Storage with Acceptable Throughput	1990	VLDB	8.3249502e-05
2,819	Priority in DBMS Resource Scheduling	1989	VLDB	8.0922349e-05
3,223	Partially Preemptible Hash Joins	1993	SIGMOD	7.6256187e-05
3,938	Write-Only Disk Caches	1990	SIGMOD	7.0081626e-05
4,104	Memory-Contention Responsive Hash Joins	1994	VLDB	6.8987972e-05
4,462	Dynamic Resource Brokering for Multi-User Query Execution	1995	SIGMOD	6.6883778e-05
4,564	Fault Tolerant Design of Multimedia Servers	1995	SIGMOD	6.6288012e-05
4,652	On Parallel Execution Of Multiple Pipelined Hash Joins	1994	SIGMOD	6.5851924e-05
4,708	Memory-Adaptive External Sorting	1993	VLDB	6.5519325e-05
4,720	A Comparison Of High-Availability Media Recovery Techniques	1989	SIGMOD	6.5455243e-05
5,198	Doubly Distorted Mirrors	1993	SIGMOD	6.3225297e-05
5,428	Dynamic File Allocation in Disk Arrays	1991	SIGMOD	6.2222186e-05
6,985	Disk Mirroring with Alternating Deferred Updates	1993	VLDB	5.7303405e-05
7,271	Managing Memory For Real-Time Queries	1994	SIGMOD	5.6595838e-05
7,948	Comparing Rebuild Algorithms for Mirrored and RAID5 Disk Arrays	1993	SIGMOD	5.5181056e-05
12,202	Fatman: Cost-saving and reliable archival storage based on volunteer resources	2014	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,860	StorHouse Metanoia - New Applications for Database, Storage & Data Warehousing	2001	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,915	Active Storage Hierarchy, Database Systems and Applications – Socratic Exegesis	1999	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,017	Optimal Response Time Retrieval of Replicated Data	1994	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,077	Analysis of Disk Arm Movement for Large Sequential Reads (Extended Abstract)	1992	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
133	A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)	1988	SIGMOD	0.00030370315

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