The inability to perform optimizations based on application-specific information presents a hurdle to the deployment of pervasive LAN file systems across WAN environments. This pa...
We introduce Membrane, a set of changes to the operating system to support restartable file systems. Membrane allows an operating system to tolerate a broad class of file system f...
UserFS provides egalitarian OS protection mechanisms in Linux. UserFS allows any user--not just the system administrator--to allocate Unix user IDs, to use chroot, and to set up f...
The fuzzy file block matching technique (fuzzy matching for short), was first proposed for opportunistic use of Content Addressable Storage. Fuzzy matching aims to increase the ...
A key challenge faced by large-scale, distributed applications in Grid environments is efficient, seamless data management. In particular, for applications that can benefit from a...
Jithendar Paladugula, Ming Zhao 0002, Renato J. O....