On the Benefits of aWorkflow-Aware File System in High-Performance Computing Systems
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Reliability mechanisms for file systems using non-volatile memory as a metadata store
EMSOFT '06 Proceedings of the 6th ACM & IEEE International conference on Embedded software
A model, schema, and interface for metadata file systems
ACSC '08 Proceedings of the thirty-first Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 74
enabling cross-layer optimizations in storage systems with custom metadata
HPDC '08 Proceedings of the 17th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
Harvesting Large-Scale Grids for Software Resources
CCGRID '09 Proceedings of the 2009 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Effective Keyword Search for Software Resources Installed in Large-Scale Grid Infrastructures
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Relation-based file management for portable device
CCNC'10 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference
User interface models for the cloud
UIST '10 Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
FileSearchCube: a file grouping tool combining multiple types of interfile-relationships
WAIM'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Web-age information management
PosCFS: an advanced file management technique for the wearable computing environment
EUC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
Easing the burdens of HPC file management
Proceedings of the sixth workshop on Parallel Data Storage
Minersoft: Software retrieval in grid and cloud computing infrastructures
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
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Traditional file systems provide a weak and inadequate structure for meaningful representations of file interrelationships and other context-providing metadata. Existing designs, which store additional file-oriented metadata either in a database, on disk, or both are limited by the technologies upon which they depend. Moreover, they do not provide for user-defined relationships among files. To address these issues, we created the Linking File System (LiFS), a file system design in which files may have both arbitrary user- or application-specified attributes, and attributed links between files. In order to assure performance when accessing links and attributes, the system is designed to store metadata in non-volatile memory. This paper discusses several use cases that take advantage of this approach and describes the user-space prototype we developed to test the concepts presented.