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The steady-state distribution of storage utilizations of segments in a log-structured file system with least-utilized (greedy) segment cleaning is found using analytic methods. Furthermore, it is shown that as the number of segments increases, this distribution approaches a limiting continuous distribution, which is also derived. These results could be useful for preliminary preformance analysis of LFS-type system designs prior to the development of detailed simulation models of actual implementation.
By: John T. Robinson
Published in: Operating Systems Review, volume 30, (no 4), pages 29-32. in 1996
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