@inproceedings{9d55d16d37e44d7f98398a4a0edc0145,
title = "FAXtrac: Fast extraction of disk layout",
abstract = "The low-level disk characteristics play a vital role for the I/O performance optimization in disk storage systems. This paper presents FAXtrac, a tool for automatically and efficiently extracting the exact disk layout, i.e., the number of sectors of each disk track. FAXtrac includes three algorithms, namely SptExplore, TrackExplore, and RemoveNoise, to ensure the correctness and speediness of the extraction of disk layout. We tested FAXtrac on a number of different disk models. It took only 75 minutes to extract the detailed disk layout for a 250GB SATA disk, which shortened the time by two orders of magnitude as compared with an existing solution. We believe that FAXtrac is a valuable tool for the hard disk storage research community.",
keywords = "Disk layout, Hard disk drive",
author = "Xiaowen Chu and Kai Ouyang and Xiaolei Chang",
note = "Copyright: Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, NAS 2009 ; Conference date: 09-07-2009 Through 11-07-2009",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/NAS.2009.59",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780769537412",
series = "Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, NAS 2009",
pages = "309--314",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, NAS 2009",
}