Adding details to the design of a file system, and then implementing it in detail. The file system uses a variant of the scheme used by UNIX in that it allows for a hierarchical file directory and ...

The goal of this work is to create a limited but fully functional user system file system. The system called cfs (container file-system) provides all of its entities (files, directories, and links) as ...

One of the questions that Unix users are sometimes reluctant to ask is how all the directory names — like /etc, /var and /usr/local — came about in the first place. Why did we adopt the particular ...

Abstract: We defeat two proposed Unix file-system race condition defense mechanisms. First, we attack the probabilistic defense mechanism of Tsafrir, et al., published at USENIX FAST 2008. We then ...