Versatility and unix semantics in namespace unification

ACM Transactions on Storage

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 74-105

  Wright, Charles P ^a   Dave, Jay ^a   Gupta, Puja ^a   Krishnan, Harikesavan ^a   Quigley, David P ^a   Zadok, Erez ^a   Zubair, Mohammad Nayyer ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directory merging; Namespace management; Snapshotting; Stackable file systems; Unification

Indexed keywords

DIRECTORY MERGING; NAMESPACE MANAGEMENT; SNAPSHOTTING; STACKABLE FILE SYSTEMS; UNIFICATION;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROM; SET THEORY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 33745273588     PISSN: 15533077     EISSN: 15533093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1138041.1138045     Document Type: Article

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