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: he313a9eaeb5d950b
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 0.0002230589
Overall Rank: 279 | 98.13%
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
137	A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)	1988	SIGMOD	0.00029708689
401	A Case for Fractured Mirrors	2002	VLDB	0.00019102313
2,123	Priority-Hints: An Algorithm for Priority-Based Buffer Management	1990	VLDB	9.00518e-05
2,449	Active Storage For Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia	1998	VLDB	8.4460399e-05
2,683	Parity Striping of Disc Arrays: Low-Cost Reliable Storage with Acceptable Throughput	1990	VLDB	8.1356425e-05
2,849	Priority in DBMS Resource Scheduling	1989	VLDB	7.9384215e-05
3,250	Partially Preemptible Hash Joins	1993	SIGMOD	7.4905507e-05
4,000	Write-Only Disk Caches	1990	SIGMOD	6.8592982e-05
4,144	Memory-Contention Responsive Hash Joins	1994	VLDB	6.7782012e-05
4,471	Memory-Adaptive External Sorting	1993	VLDB	6.5823759e-05
4,520	Dynamic Resource Brokering for Multi-User Query Execution	1995	SIGMOD	6.5598046e-05
4,667	Fault Tolerant Design of Multimedia Servers	1995	SIGMOD	6.4770012e-05
4,712	On Parallel Execution Of Multiple Pipelined Hash Joins	1994	SIGMOD	6.4543768e-05
4,818	A Comparison Of High-Availability Media Recovery Techniques	1989	SIGMOD	6.3956402e-05
5,301	Doubly Distorted Mirrors	1993	SIGMOD	6.1876703e-05
5,565	Dynamic File Allocation in Disk Arrays	1991	SIGMOD	6.0799258e-05
7,127	Disk Mirroring with Alternating Deferred Updates	1993	VLDB	5.5991152e-05
7,416	Managing Memory For Real-Time Queries	1994	SIGMOD	5.5312084e-05
8,123	Comparing Rebuild Algorithms for Mirrored and RAID5 Disk Arrays	1993	SIGMOD	5.3917406e-05
12,499	Fatman: Cost-saving and reliable archival storage based on volunteer resources	2014	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,156	StorHouse Metanoia - New Applications for Database, Storage & Data Warehousing	2001	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
13,211	Active Storage Hierarchy, Database Systems and Applications – Socratic Exegesis	1999	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,313	Optimal Response Time Retrieval of Replicated Data	1994	PODS	4.9769913e-05
13,373	Analysis of Disk Arm Movement for Large Sequential Reads (Extended Abstract)	1992	PODS	4.9769913e-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
137	A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)	1988	SIGMOD	0.00029708689

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