Historical Section : Static Snapshots
The Historical Section includes all traces that are older than 10 years. Static Snapshots are traces taken statically of a file system rather than of system calls.
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Displaying all 5 Traces
| Trace Name | Details | Related Tools | Year Recorded | Timespan | Record Count | File Size | Actions |
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| UBC-Dedup |
Traces collected for the paper "A Study of Practical Deduplication" by Dutch T. Meyer and William J. Bolosky of The University of British Columbia and Microsoft Research
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2009 | 4 months | 3.4 TB |
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| Multimedia file sizes |
File-size data collected for the paper "A Study of Irregularities in File-Size Distributions".
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This trace has no related tools yet. | 2001 | 21 days | 17.1 MB |
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| Microsoft Longitudinal Study |
Because of the size of the traces, they have been repackaged by IOTTA into 22 zip files. Each zip files contains information from the original snapshot, directory, and file info files, repackaged by user. More information on how the files were repackaged can be found in the readme-iotta.txt file found in each zip file.
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2000-2004 | over 4 years | 5 Billion | 91.1 GB |
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| Microsoft 1998 Static Study |
Static analysis of 10,568 file systems on 4801 workstations at Microsoft. This data formed the basis for the paper "A Large-Scale Study of File-System Contents" by John R. Douceur and William J. Bolosky, published in ACM SIGMETRICS 1999.
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1998 | 8 days | 153 Million | 3.73 GB |
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| Plan 9 Traces |
This is a time series set of "snapshots" of the contents of the Plan 9 file servers at Bell Labs. One snapshot per day for over ten years. The snapshots were taken on two different machines: bootes and emelie. See the Venti paper for more information.
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1990-2001 | about 11 years | 0 Bytes |
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