2022-11-06
The past month has included both a very interesting talk from someone at a major storage vendor and an in-depth discussion about my work and how it might be applicable to an issue that confronts the Metaverse community. I haven’t been at the keyboard much (at least not for my research) but I have been […]
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2022-02-16
A key aspect of the work I am doing for Indaleko is to “capture system activity” so that it can be used to form “activity contexts” that can then be used to inform the process of finding relevant information. As part of that, I have been working through the work of Daniela Vianna. While I […]
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2022-01-13
I recently described the idea of “activity context” and suggested that providing this new type of information about data (meta-data) to applications would permit improve important tasks such as finding. My examining committee challenged me to think about what I would do if my proposed service – Indaleko – already existed today. This is the […]
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2022-01-12 / 2 Comments on Using Focus, Relationship, Breadcrumbs, and Trails for Success in Finding
As I mentioned in my last post, I am considering how to add activity context as a system service that can be useful in improving findings. Last month (December 2021) my examination committee asked me to consider a useful question: “If this service already existed what would you build using it?” The challenge in answering […]
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2022-01-11
Last month I presented my thesis proposal to my PhD committee. My proposal doesn’t mean that I am done, rather it means that I have more clearly identified what I intend to make the focus of my final research. It has certainly taken longer to get to this point than I had anticipated. Part of […]
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2021-09-28
While I’ve been quiet about what I’ve been doing research-wise, I have been making forward progress. Only recently have ideas been converging towards a concrete thesis and the corresponding research questions that I need to explore as part of verifying my thesis. I received an interesting article today showing that my research is far more […]
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2020-08-05
It's been more than a year since I posted; where have I been? What have I been doing? Continue reading →
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2019-07-18
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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2019-07-16 / 1 Comment on 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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2019-07-11
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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