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Reads

Handling block read requests at the D-GRAID level is straightforward. Given the logical address of the block, Alexander looks in the imap to find the replica list and issues the read request to one of its replicas. The choice of which replica to read from can be based on various criteria [47]; currently Alexander uses a randomized selection.




Muthian Sivathanu 2004-02-17