Ufo: A Personal Global File System Based on User-Level Extensions to the Operating System

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 207-233

  Alexandrov, Albert D ^a,b   Ibel, Maximilian ^a,b   Schauser, Klaus E ^a,b   Scheiman, Chris J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

D.4.3 Operating Systems : File Systems Management access methods; Distributed file systems; File caching; Global name space; Performance; Proc file system; User level operating system extensions

Indexed keywords

FILE ORGANIZATION; HTTP; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

USER-LEVEL OPERATING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032131867     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/290409.290410     Document Type: Article

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