Sources and Tools From Disk Allocation Paper

The following benchmark prograrms, source code, and data files supplement my 1996 USENIX paper, A Comparison of FFS Disk Allocation Algorithms.

Selecting any of the following items will download a gzipped tar file containing the relevant files. Each archive includes a README file which explains its contents.

File System Aging. (5.3 MB - The trace file that drives the aging program is very large.)
Benchmarks
BSD/OS patch to enable realloc disk allocation

Keith Smith / keith@eecs.harvard.edu