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This paper describes the design and implementation of a file server specially optimised for the storage and retrieval of continuous media. The issues which this paper addresses are disk striping, optimised disk layouts, real-time algorithms, and disk head scheduling.
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Lougher, P., Shepherd, D. (1993). The design and implementation of a continuous media storage server. In: Venkat Rangan, P. (eds) Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video. NOSSDAV 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 712. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57183-3_7
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