Virtualization aware file systems: Getting beyond the limitations of virtual disks

3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pfaff, Ben ^a   Garfinkel, Tal ^a   Rosenblum, Mendel ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUALIZATION;

ALL OR NOTHINGS; COARSE-GRAINED; CONTROL FEATURES; DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS; FILE SYSTEMS; VERSIONING; VIRTUAL DISK; VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENTS;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84942460001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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