Ext3cow: A Time-Shifting File System for Regulatory Compliance

ACM Transactions on Storage

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 190-212

  Peterson, Zachary ^a   Burns, Randal ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

copy on write; Design; Measurement; Performance; Reliability; Versioning file systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33244463191     PISSN: 15533077     EISSN: 15533093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1063786.1063789     Document Type: Article

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