A File is Not a File: Understanding the I/O Behavior of Apple Desktop Applications
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@MISC{Harter_afile,
author = {Tyler Harter and Chris Dragga and Michael Vaughn and Andrea C. Arpaci-dusseau and Remzi H. Arpaci-dusseau},
title = {A File is Not a File: Understanding the I/O Behavior of Apple Desktop Applications},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
We analyze the I/O behavior of iBench, a new collection of productivity and multimedia application workloads. Our analysis reveals a number of differences between iBench and typical file-system workload studies, including the complex organization of modern files, the lack of pure sequential access, the influence of underlying frameworks on I/O patterns, the widespread use of file synchronization and atomic operations, and the prevalence of threads. Our results have strong ramifications for the design of next generation local and cloud-based storage systems. 1.
