Exploiting read-mostly workloads in the FileNet file system
Dennis Edwards, M. Mckendry · 1989
Most recent studies of file system workloads have focussed on loads imposed by general computing. This paper introduces a significantly different workload imposed by a distributed application system. The FileNet system is a distributed application system that supports document image processing. The FileNet file system was designed to support the workload imposed by this application. To characterize the read-mostly workload applied to the file system and how it differs from general computing environments, we present statistics gathered from live production installations. We contrast these statistics with previously published data for more general computing.