Performance of greedy garbage collection
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Werner Bux; Ilias Iliadis
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Article
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2010
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In flash-based solid-state drives (SSD) and log-structured file systems, new data is written out-of-place, which over time exhausts the available free space. New free space is created by the garbage-collection process, which reclaims the space occupied by invalidated data. The write amplification, i