Keith A. Smith's Publications

• Jiri Schindler, Sandip Shete, Keith A. Smith. Improving Throughput for Small Disk Requests with Proximal I/O. Proceedings of the 9th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST). February 2011.

• Peter Macko, Margo Seltzer, Keith A. Smith. Tracking Back References in a Write-Anywhere File System. Proceedings of the 8th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST). February 2010.

• John K. Edwards, Daniel Ellard, Craig Everhart, Robert Fair, Eric Hamilton, Andy Kahn, Arkady Kanvesky, James Lentini, Ashish Prakash, Keith A. Smith, Edward Zayas. FlexVol: Flexible, Efficient File Volume Virtualization in WAFL. Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. June 2008.

• Keith Arnold Smith. Workload-Specific File System Benchmarks. Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University. January 2001.

• Margo Seltzer, Gregory Ganger, M. Kirk McKusick, Keith Smith, Craig Soules, and Christopher Stein. Journaling versus Soft Updates: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems. Proceedings of the 2000 USENIX Technical Conference. June 2000.

• Elizabeth Shriver, Christopher Small, and Keith A. Smith. Why does file system prefetching work? Proceedings of the 1999 USENIX Technical Conference. June 1999.
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• Margo Seltzer, David Krinsky, Keith A. Smith, and Xiaolan Zhang. The Case for Application-Specific Benchmarking. 7th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VII), March, 1999.

• Keith A. Smith and Margo Seltzer, File System Aging - Increasing the Relevance of File System Benchmarks, Proceedings of SIGMETRICS 97.
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• Margo Seltzer, Yasuhiro Endo, Christopher Small, and Keith A. Smith Dealing with Disaster: Surviving Misbehaved Kernel Extensions, Proceedings of the 1996 Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI).

• Keith A. Smith and Margo Seltzer, A Comparison of FFS Disk Allocation algorithms, Proceedings of the 1996 USENIX Technical Conference.
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• Margo Seltzer, Keith Smith, Hari Balakrishnan, Jacqueline Chang, Sara McMains, and Venkata Padmanabhan File System Logging versus Clustering: A Performance Comparison. Proceedings of the 1995 USENIX Technical Conference.
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• Christopher Small, Narendar Ghosh, Hany Saleeb, Margo Seltzer, and Keith A. Smith Does Systems Research Measure Up?. Harvard University Computer Science Technical Report TR-16-97. Novermber, 1997.

• Margo Seltzer, Yasuhiro Endo, Christopher Small, and Keith A. Smith Issues in Extensible Operating Systems Harvard University Computer Science Technical Report TR-18-97. November, 1997.

• Margo Seltzer, Christopher Small, and Keith A. Smith The Case for Extensible Operating Systems, Harvard University Computer Science Technical Report TR-16-95.

• Yasuhiro Endo, James Gwertzman, Margo Seltzer, Christopher Small, Keith A. Smith, and Diane Tang. VINO: The 1994 Fall Harvest. Harvard University Computer Science Technical Report TR-34-94.

• Keith A. Smith and Margo Seltzer, File Layout and File System Performance. Harvard Computer Science Technical Report TR-35-94.
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