System and methods for an overlay disk and cache using portable flash memory

摘要: A system is provided for reading and writing sectors which may be realized as either a disk device to the local operating system, or virtual machine. user's computing environment stored in network form of image, example. The on host computers through host-resident machine monitors such MICROSOFT VIRTUAL PC®. Portable memory devices, flash buffer writes cache reads, greatly reducing performance degradation associated with remote access. mobile so that it can travel user. remembers commonly used content fingerprints machine's satisfy many common reads when ubiquitous static involved. Standard, frequently software images might distributed advance machines. Flash contents are trickled back into networked parent image order provide an automatic backup facility, adding benefit ensuring drive doesn't overflow.