Adding details to the design of a file system, and then implementing it in detail. The file system uses a variant of the scheme used by UNIX in that it allows for a hierarchical file directory and ...

The goal of this work is to create a limited but fully functional user system file system. The system called cfs (container file-system) provides all of its entities (files, directories, and links) as ...

Abstract: We defeat two proposed Unix file-system race condition defense mechanisms. First, we attack the probabilistic defense mechanism of Tsafrir, et al., published at USENIX FAST 2008. We then ...

One of the questions that Unix users are sometimes reluctant to ask is how all the directory names — like /etc, /var and /usr/local — came about in the first place. Why did we adopt the particular ...