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  1-10 of 61 Reviews about "File Systems Management (D.4.3)": Date Reviewed
  Virtualization vs. containerization to support PaaS
Dua R., Raja A., Kakadia D.  IC2E 2014 (Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering,Mar 11-14, 2014) 610-614, 2014.  Type: Proceedings

Containers are sets of tools that package an application and all of its dependencies so that it can run on any Linux system or distribution. This paper deals with the onset of containers and how they immensely help drive the productivi...

Apr 21 2015
  A study of Linux file system evolution
Lu L., Arpaci-Dusseau A., Arpaci-Dusseau R., Lu S. ACM Transactions on Storage 10(1): 1-32, 2014.  Type: Article

The authors of this paper have performed a Herculean task, categorizing more than 5,000 file system patches to the Linux 2.6 kernel from six different file systems (Btrfs, Ext3, Ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, and XFS). Each patch is assigned int...

May 6 2014
  A file provenance system
Sultana S., Bertino E.  CODASPY 2013 (Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, San Antonio, TX, Feb 18-20, 2013) 153-156, 2013.  Type: Proceedings

Provenance refers to the historical information and actions performed on a data object. But how does one design a provenance system for files? The authors of this paper “propose the design of a file provenance system ... (FiP...

Oct 25 2013
  Hadoop beginner’s guide
Turkington G., Packt Publishing, Birmingham, UK, 2013. 398 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-849517-30-0)

Big data is currently a major topic in the industry, supported by a mix of startups, open-source projects, and business analytics companies that monetize the permanent increase in data, its velocity, and its diversity. One dominant sof...

Sep 27 2013
  A reliable storage management framework for flash based embedded and multimedia systems experiencing diverse data nature
Rizvi S., Chung T.  ICUIMC 2011 (Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, Seoul, Korea, Feb 21-23, 2011) 1-4, 2011.  Type: Proceedings

Rizvi and Chung attempt to use block access patterns to improve flash memory storage performance. In such file systems, the operating system divides each file into blocks, usually consisting of 4 kilobytes (KB). The flash memory operat...

Jul 12 2011
  Security constructs for regulatory-compliant storage
Burns R., Peterson Z. Communications of the ACM 53(1): 126-130, 2010.  Type: Article

The massive compliance legislation and guidelines on the storage, administration, and retrieval (SAR) of electronic records [1,2] create major challenges for the healthcare and financial industries. How should investors and customers b...

Aug 30 2010
  Teaching operating systems using virtual appliances and distributed version control
Laadan O., Nieh J., Viennot N.  SIGCSE 2010 (Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Milwaukee, WI, Mar 10-13, 2010) 480-484, 2010.  Type: Proceedings

This practical experience report is based on systems courses at Columbia University. The authors explain that dedicated computing resources, such as course server farms and time-sharing systems, are no longer necessary for many practic...

Aug 19 2010
   GFS: evolution on fast-forward
McKusick K., Quinlan S. Communications of the ACM 53(3): 42-49, 2010.  Type: Article

This is a friendly discussion on the status of the Google File System (GFS). Sean Quinlan works at Google and was at one time the GFS technology leader. In this article, he is interviewed by Kirk McKusick, who worked on Berkeley Softwa...

May 13 2010
  Causality-based versioning
Muniswamy-Reddy K., Holland D. ACM Transactions on Storage 5(4): 1-28, 2009.  Type: Article

Logical data protection problems--such as accidental file deletion and data corruption due to a virus or a worm--can render files useless. A versioning file system can enable recovery from such failures. The problem i...

Mar 16 2010
  Umbrella file system: storage management across heterogeneous devices
Garrison J., Reddy A. ACM Transactions on Storage 5(1): 1-24, 2009.  Type: Article

All files are not equal. Some require additional security. And some are temporary and should be stored as simply as possible, while others may be permanent and should be stored on write once media. The traditional approach is to segreg...

Aug 17 2009
 
 
 
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