A versatile and user-oriented versioning file system

Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, FAST 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Muniswamy Reddy, Kiran Kumar ^a   Wright, Charles P ^a   Himmer, Andrew ^a   Zadok, Erez ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

DISASTER RECOVERY; EXISTING SYSTEMS; FILE SYSTEMS; FILE VERSIONING; FINE GRAINED; STORAGE POLICIES; USER CONFIGURABLE; USER ORIENTED;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85084162599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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