A fast file system for UNIX

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1984, Pages 181-197

  McKusick, Marshall K ^a,b   Joy, William N ^a,c   Leffler, Samuel J ^a   Fabry, Robert S ^a,b  

^a Computer Systems Research Group ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

application program interface; file system design; file system organization; file system performance; UNIX

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976682539     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/989.990     Document Type: Article

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