We describe our work in implementing a wide-area distributed file system for the NSF TeraGrid. The system, called XUFS, allows private distributed name spaces to be created for tr...
Disk performance is increasingly limited by its head positioning latencies, i.e., seek time and rotational delay. To reduce the head positioning latencies, we propose a novel tech...
Modern computer systems are based on the traditional hierarchical file system model, but typically contain large numbers of files with complex interrelationships. This tradition...
Peer-to-peer file-sharing systems have hundreds of thousands of users sharing petabytes of data, however, their search functionality is limited. In general, query results contain...
Identifying the true type of a computer file can be a difficult problem. Previous methods of file type recognition include fixed file extensions, fixed “magic numbers” stored ...