A Principle for Resilient Sharing of Distributed Resources
A Principle for Resilient Sharing of Distributed Resources Peter A. Alsberg and John D. Day, In Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Software engineering, pp. 562-570. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1976. Today I turn my attention to a paper that begins to explore the issues surrounding distributed systems. This paper sets forth some basic principles […]
Some Observations about Decentralization of File Systems
Some Observations about Decentralization of File Systems. Jerome H. Saltzer, 1971. This paper caught my eye because it leads in a different direction than the other file systems papers I’ve been looking at. Instead of talking about file systems on a single computer, it has the audacity of suggesting that maybe we want to have […]
The UNIX Time-Sharing Operating System
The UNIX Time-Sharing Operating System Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson, Bell Labs, Communications of the ACM, July 1974, Volume 17, Number 7, pp. 365-375. This paper describes Version 3 of UNIX. It was Version 6 that became the basis of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) version of UNIX. The only other operating system in CS history […]
MULTICS I/O
Feiertag, Richard J., and Elliott I. Organick. “The Multics input/output system.” In Proceedings of the third ACM symposium on Operating systems principles, pp. 35-41. ACM, 1971. In this paper we return to MULTICS but this time the focus is on the I/O system. Much of the content is not directly related to the file system, but it certainly […]
File Structure
Complex Information Processing: A File Structure for the Complex, The Changing, and the Indeterminate ACM ’65 Proceedings of the 1965 20th national conference, Pages 84-100 Nelson, T. H. This paper has been a bit more challenging to incorporate. I originally picked it from the intriguing title and lead-in. It represents very early thought on how information […]
Database versus File System
A general purpose programming system for random access memories Proceedings of the October 27-29, 1964 Fall Joint Computer Conference, Part 1, pp. 411-422, ACM, 1964. Bachman, Charles W., and S. B. Williams. When I discussed MULTICS file systems I disingenuously glossed over an important point they make there: namely, that file systems are an ordered sequence […]
MULTICS
A General-Purpose File System For Secondary Storage R. C. Daley and P.G. Neumann Published in the Proceedings of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies 1965, Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 27, pp. 213-229. This is the seminal paper discussing how file systems were envisioned within the MULTICS operating system. While you can still run MULTICS, […]
On the history of File Systems
I have made it a goal for 2018 to answer a question several people have asked me: what papers should I read to learn more about file systems. So I’ve decided to attempt to copy a format that I’ve found useful – The Morning Paper. I admit, I am not sure I’ll be able to […]
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