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360° Semantic File System: Augmented Directory Navigation for Nonhierarchical Retrieval of Files

360° Semantic File System: Augmented Directory Navigation for Nonhierarchical Retrieval of Files, Syed Rahman Mashwani and Shah Kusro, in IEEE Access, January 29, 2019. This paper makes some interesting observations that resonate with my own research observations, though I will end up arguing (in a future blog post) that they don’t go far enough. But […]

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ZUFS

After one of my earlier posts on FUSE file system performance, someone mentioned this project to me – the Zero copy Userspace File System project (ZUFS) which appears to be a NetApp sponsored project. There have been a variety of talks about this project, including the Linux Plumber’s Conference (which was held next door to […]

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A Comparison of Two Network-Based File Servers

A Comparison of Two Network-Based File ServersJames G. Mitchell and Jeremy Dion, in Communications of the ACM, April 1982, Volume 25, Number 4. I previously described the Cambridge File Server (CFS).  In this 1981 SOSP paper the inner details of it and the Xerox Distributed File System (XDFS) are compared.  This paper provides an interesting […]

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Extension Framework for File Systems in User space

Extension Framework for File Systems in User space, Ashish Bijlani and Umakishore Ramachandran, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2019. The idea of improving FUSE performance has become a common theme. This paper, which will be presented this week at USENIX ATC 2019 in Renton, WA, is one more to explore how we can improve FUSE performance. […]

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Direct-FUSE: Removing the Middleman for High-Performance FUSE File System Support

Direct-FUSE: Removing the Middleman for High-Performance FUSE File System Support, Yue Zhu, Teng Wang, Kathryn Mohror, Adam Moody, Kento Sato, Muhib Khan, and Weikuan Yu, in Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Runtime Operating Systems for Supercomputers, page 6, 2018. There are quite a few papers that discuss the performance of the FUSE model. […]

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