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What is the Optimal Location for Storing Metadata

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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MRAMFS: A compressing file system for non-volatile RAM

2018-04-20

MRAMFS: A compressing file system for non-volatile RAM Nathan K. Edel, Deepa Tuteja, Ethan L. Miller, and Scott A. Brandt in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), Volendam, Netherlands, October 2004. This paper allows me to provide both a file systems paper and look at […]

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The DEMOS File System

2018-02-13

The DEMOS File System Michael L. Powell, In Proceedings of the sixth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles, pp. 33-42. This paper delves into the nitty gritty details of constructing physical file systems.  I was surprised that it had relatively few citations (61 according to Google Scholar when I checked) because, having read it, I would […]

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TENEX

2018-01-04

Tenex, a Paged Time Sharing System for the PDP-10 Communications of the ACM, March 1972, Volume 15, Number 3 Daniel G. Bobrow, Jerry D. Burchfiel, Daniel L. Murphy, and Raymond S. Tomlinson, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. TENEX is a new time sharing system implemented on a DEC PDP-10 augmented by special paging hardware developed […]

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MULTICS

2018-01-02

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, […]

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On the history of File Systems

2018-01-01

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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