Preheating a Mobile File Cache
Peter Honeyman
Associate Research Scientist
Center for Information Technology Integration
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Ad hoc methods
Avoid file and attribute cache misses while disconnected
Effective, but
Working set
Over time, estimate the "working set" for a mobile user
Application specific
Email (what else?): MH in /afs
Agent constructs a profile, client fetches
Off-client processing avoids polluting client cache
Agent
Consider an agent holding proxy callbacks