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SOSP
1993
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
The Logical Disk: A New Approach to Improving File Systems
The Logical Disk (LD) defines a new interface to disk storage that separates file management and disk management by using logical block numbers and block lists. The LD interface...
Wiebren de Jonge, M. Frans Kaashoek, Wilson C. Hsi...
USENIX
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Controlling Your PLACE in the File System with Gray-box Techniques
We present the design and implementation of PLACE, a gray-box library for controlling file layout on top of FFSlike file systems. PLACE exploits its knowledge of FFS layout poli...
James A. Nugent, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H...
SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
File System Aging - Increasing the Relevance of File System Benchmarks
Benchmarks are important because they provide a means for users and researchers to characterize how their workloads will perform on different systems and different system architec...
Keith A. Smith, Margo I. Seltzer
SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
164views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 1997»
13 years 8 months ago
File Server Scaling with Network-Attached Secure Disks
By providing direct data transfer between storage and client, network-attached storage devices have the potential to improve scalability for existing distributed file systems (by...
Garth A. Gibson, David Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Fay W....
ICCS
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
JDOS: A Jini Based Distributed Operating System
J-DOS provides and integrated JAVA environment for the execution of a program across an interconnected network of heterogeneous computers. The system provides a file system, shar...
M. Saywell, J. S. Reeve
SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Transactional file systems can be fast
Transactions ensure simple and correct handling of concurrency and failures but are often considered too expensive for use in file systems. This paper argues that performance is ...
Barbara Liskov, Rodrigo Rodrigues
NDSS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Improved Proxy Re-Encryption Schemes with Applications to Secure Distributed Storage
In 1998, Blaze, Bleumer, and Strauss proposed an application called atomic proxy re-encryption, in which a semi-trusted proxy converts a ciphertext for Alice into a ciphertext for...
Giuseppe Ateniese, Kevin Fu, Matthew Green, Susan ...
SRDS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Cryptree: A Folder Tree Structure for Cryptographic File Systems
We present Cryptree, a cryptographic tree structure which facilitates access control in file systems operating on untrusted storage. Cryptree leverages the file system’s folde...
Dominik Grolimund, Luzius Meisser, Stefan Schmid, ...
BTW
2007
Springer
110views Database» more  BTW 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Melting Pot XML: Bringing File Systems and Databases One Step Closer
: Ever-growing data volumes demand for storage systems beyond current file systems abilities, particularly, a powerful querying capability. With the rise of XML, the database comm...
Alexander Holupirek, Christian Grün, Marc H. ...
MSS
2007
IEEE
129views Hardware» more  MSS 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Cryptographic Security for a High-Performance Distributed File System
Storage systems are increasingly subject to attacks. Cryptographic file systems mitigate the danger of exposing data by using encryption and integrity protection methods and guar...
Roman Pletka, Christian Cachin