Generalized file system dependencies

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 307-320

  Frost, Christopher ^a   Mammarella, Mike ^a   Kohler, Eddie ^a   De Los Reyes, Andrew ^b   Hovsepian, Shant ^a   Matsuoka, Andrew ^c   Zhang, Lei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependencies; File systems; Journaling; Soft updates

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENCIES; JOURNALING; SOFT UPDATES; CONSISTENCY ENFORCEMENT; CONSISTENCY REQUIREMENTS; DEPENDENCY STRUCTURES; FILE SYSTEMS; LINUX KERNEL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; STABLE STORAGE; STORAGE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM LAYER; USER LEVELS;

ABSTRACTING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; RELIABILITY;

FILE ORGANIZATION; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 41149172549     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1294261.1294291     Document Type: Conference Paper

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