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: 0.0002224058
Overall Rank: 283 | 98.11%
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	0.00029612709
403	A Case for Fractured Mirrors	2002	VLDB	0.00019067656
2,114	Priority-Hints: An Algorithm for Priority-Based Buffer Management	1990	VLDB	9.0159554e-05
2,456	Active Storage For Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia	1998	VLDB	8.4204678e-05
2,694	Parity Striping of Disc Arrays: Low-Cost Reliable Storage with Acceptable Throughput	1990	VLDB	8.1088976e-05
2,856	Priority in DBMS Resource Scheduling	1989	VLDB	7.9166065e-05
3,236	Partially Preemptible Hash Joins	1993	SIGMOD	7.4849664e-05
4,014	Write-Only Disk Caches	1990	SIGMOD	6.8378516e-05
4,136	Memory-Contention Responsive Hash Joins	1994	VLDB	6.7717644e-05
4,490	Memory-Adaptive External Sorting	1993	VLDB	6.5618088e-05
4,535	Dynamic Resource Brokering for Multi-User Query Execution	1995	SIGMOD	6.5408539e-05
4,681	Fault Tolerant Design of Multimedia Servers	1995	SIGMOD	6.4555842e-05
4,713	On Parallel Execution Of Multiple Pipelined Hash Joins	1994	SIGMOD	6.4397959e-05
4,841	A Comparison Of High-Availability Media Recovery Techniques	1989	SIGMOD	6.3744932e-05
5,315	Doubly Distorted Mirrors	1993	SIGMOD	6.1683978e-05
5,581	Dynamic File Allocation in Disk Arrays	1991	SIGMOD	6.0598441e-05
7,150	Disk Mirroring with Alternating Deferred Updates	1993	VLDB	5.580601e-05
7,436	Managing Memory For Real-Time Queries	1994	SIGMOD	5.5130558e-05
8,141	Comparing Rebuild Algorithms for Mirrored and RAID5 Disk Arrays	1993	SIGMOD	5.3739121e-05
12,542	Fatman: Cost-saving and reliable archival storage based on volunteer resources	2014	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,197	StorHouse Metanoia - New Applications for Database, Storage & Data Warehousing	2001	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
13,252	Active Storage Hierarchy, Database Systems and Applications – Socratic Exegesis	1999	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,354	Optimal Response Time Retrieval of Replicated Data	1994	PODS	4.9605343e-05
13,414	Analysis of Disk Arm Movement for Large Sequential Reads (Extended Abstract)	1992	PODS	4.9605343e-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	0.00029612709

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