LiFS: An attribute-rich file system for storage class memories

Appeared in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE / 14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies.

Abstract

As the number and variety of files stored and accessed by a typical user has dramatically increased, existing file system structures have begun to fail as a mechanism for managing all of the information contained in those files. Many applications—email clients, multimedia management applications, and desktop search engines are examples— have been forced to develop their own richer metadata infrastructures. While effective, these solutions are generally non-standard, non-portable, non-sharable across applications, users or platforms, proprietary, and potentially inefficient. In the interest of providing a rich, efficient, shared file system metadata infrastructure, we have developed the Linking File System (LiFS). Taking advantage of non-volatile storage class memories, LiFS supports a wide variety of user and application metadata needs while efficiently supporting traditional file system operations.

Publication date:
May 2006

Authors:
Sasha Ames
Nikhil Bobb
Kevin Greenan
Owen Hofmann
Mark W. Storer
Carlos Maltzahn
Ethan L. Miller
Scott A. Brandt

Projects:
Storage Class Memories

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Bibtex entry

@inproceedings{ames-msst06,
  author       = {Sasha Ames and Nikhil Bobb and Kevin Greenan and Owen Hofmann and Mark W. Storer and Carlos Maltzahn and Ethan L. Miller and Scott A. Brandt},
  title        = {{LiFS}: An attribute-rich file system for storage class memories},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE / 14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies},
  month        = may,
  year         = {2006},
}