Name
Abstract | ||
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Traditional file systems provide a weak and inadequate structure for meaningful representations of file interrelationships and other context-providing metadata. Existing designs, which store additional file-oriented metadata either in a database, on disk, or both are limited by the technologies upon which they depend. Moreover, they do not provide for user-defined relationships among files. To address these issues, we created the Linking File System (LiFS), a file system design in which files may have both arbitrary user- or application-specified attributes, and attributed links between files. In order to assure performance when accessing links and attributes, the system is designed to store metadata in non-volatile memory. This paper discusses several use cases that take advantage of this approach and describes the user-space prototype we developed to test the concepts presented. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2005 | 10.1109/MSST.2005.28 | MSST |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
file interrelationship,accessing link,file system design,arbitrary user,linking file system,inadequate structure,context-providing metadata,additional file-oriented metadata,richer file system metadata,traditional file system,application-specified attribute,prototypes,digital photography,non volatile memory,testing,nonvolatile memory,meta data,databases,use case,lifting equipment,metadata | Metadata,File system,Computer science,Torrent file,Versioning file system,Unix file types,Data file,File system fragmentation,Database,Computer file | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
0-7695-2318-8 | 21 | 1.00 |
References | Authors | |
14 | 8 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Ames | 1 | 21 | 1.00 |
| Carlos Maltzahn | 2 | 1201 | 87.49 |
| Nikhil Bobb | 3 | 28 | 1.73 |
| Ethan L. Miller | 4 | 2870 | 281.96 |
| Scott A. Brandt | 5 | 1663 | 94.81 |
| Alisa Neeman | 6 | 29 | 2.36 |
| Adam Hiatt | 7 | 21 | 1.00 |
| Deepa Tuteja | 8 | 49 | 2.54 |