To understand where the storage industry is headed, and why the evolution of data ... This required a new file system—or a way to ensure that the stored data could be accessed, utilized and ...

replicate data objects (and associated metadata) across local file systems. The authors conduct a comprehensive study of file-system code evolution. By analyzing eight years of Linux filesystem ...

The idea of a data processing system that could create and ... Sun Microsystems developed the network file system protocol, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network ...