Although solid-state drives offer incredibly fast read and write speeds on the hardware side, their outdated interface with the host file system has created performance bottlenecks on the software ...

Brief Description of Course Content Examines the structure and function of operating systems as an intermediary between applications and computer hardware. Topics include OS design goals, hardware ...

An Alameda County couple watches as investigators prepare to retrieve the body of Nina Reiser in the Oakland hills in July 2008. Hans Reiser, creator of the ReiserFS file system, provided the ...

Sponsored Post Many of the major advances in HPC have been the result of collaboration between academia and the big government labs. This has been the case with PVFS (Parallel Virtual File System) and ...

I'm trying to learn a little bit about the design and implementation of filesystems. I am currently reading Practical File System Design with the Be File System (made available as a PDF by its ...

File Systems: issues/interfaces, data structures on block devices, examples (V7, FAT+, ext2+) Principles: policy versus mechanism, orthogonality, worse-is-better, lazy evaluation, caching, end-to-end ...