We develop and evaluate a system for load management in shared-disk file systems built on clusters of heterogeneous computers. The system generalizes load balancing and server pr...
Two oft-cited file systems, the Fast File System (FFS) and the Log-Structured File System (LFS), adopt two sharply different update strategies—update-in-place and update-out-of-...
Time Of Check To Time Of Use (TOCTTOU) race conditions for file accesses in user-space applications are a common problem in Unix-like systems. The mapping between filename and i...
Maintaining correct access control to shared resources such as file servers, wikis, and databases is an important part of enterprise network management. A combination of many fact...