File Design Fallacies

A Power Aware Cache and Register File Design Space Exploration

File System Design Approaches

In this article, the file system development design approaches are discussed. The selection of the file system design approach is done according to the needs of the developers what are the needed requirements and specifications for the new design. It allowed us to identify where our proposal fitted in with relation to current and past file system development. Our experience with file system dev...

File of Fallacies Alfred Sidgwick: A Little-Known Precursor of Informal Logic and Argumentation

Alfred Sidgwick (1850-1943) is such an obscure figure in philosophy that whenever his name is brought up, inevitably people confuse him with his well-known cousin Henry Sidgwick. Although he wrote six books on practical logic (listed below), and wrote many articles in this area, mostly published in the journal Mind a list of these is given in the bibliography (in Nielsen, 1997) hardly anyone se...

Practical File System Design with the Be File System

Metadata: A general term referring to information that is about something but not directly part of it. For example, the size of a file is very important information about a file, but it is not part of the data in the file. Journaling: A method of insuring the correctness of file system metadata even in the presence of power failures or unexpected reboots. I-node: The place where a file system s...

File System Design for an NFS File Server Appliance

Network Appliance recently began shipping a new kind of network server called an NFS file server appliance, which is a dedicated server whose sole function is to provide NFS file service. The file system requirements for an NFS appliance are different from those for a general-purpose UNIX system, both because an NFS appliance must be optimized for network file access and because an appliance mu...