… , only in part by redefining what is meant by the word file and the doings associated with that
usage; what is also required, and this is the rub of our paper, is a new grammar of action: a …

… The notion of an object file figures prominently in recent work in … object file. We supplement
this view with a computational framework that characterizes how information about objects is …

… What if the directory structure is reorganized in one replica? Our god is to offer a simple,
concrete, and precise frame work for describing the behavior of file synchronizers. To this end, n…

… In our view, the right way to implement databases is not by building them directly on the
file system, but rather by providing database servers to which workstations send queries. In …

… We conclude that file management is a ubiquitous, challenging, and relatively unsupported
activity that invites and has received attention from several disciplines and has broad …

… There are of course many search tools available, but organizing large file systems is still
too hard”. Our objective is to take into account this human factor; users of a file system tend to …

… When a le object is created in Nebula, it is placed in an index, not a directory. The name of
a le is a property of the le object and is the same no matter what view contains the le object. …

… a particular user is not associated with a file, we can be sure that that user did not have
anything to do with the file's operation; also information that is present and might be false is better …

… This tutorial is about image file formats: what are they, what are they used for, what are their
differences and how we choose between them. The tutorial assumes a basic understanding …

… We have chosen 64 MB, which is much larger than typical file system block sizes. Each
chunk replica is stored as a plain Linux file on a chunkserver and is extended only as needed. …