Simplifying Domain Modeling and Memory Management in User-Mode Filesystems with the NOFS Framework

Joseph P. Kaylor; Konstantin Läufer; George K. Thiruvathukal

doi:10.1109/EIT.2012.6220733

Simplifying Domain Modeling and Memory Management in User-Mode Filesystems with the NOFS Framework

Joseph P. Kaylor, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Transparent access to remote data sets and data arising from web services is a non-trivial challenge to application developers. This early stage work addresses this challenge with NOFS, an object-oriented framework for creating filesystems to support domain specific functionality. While an early stage work, we present a solution to solve the access problem. Our solution greatly simplifies the task of filesystems development by providing the glue code needed between a domain model and the filesystem contract. We demonstrate support for domain models that are larger than physical memory and demonstrate how the concerns of caching can be removed from user-mode filesystem implementations. Future work will addresses more robust solutions to caching and other performance strategies.

Original language	American English
Journal	Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2012.6220733
State	Published - May 1 2012

Keywords

filesystems in user space
fuse
domain modeling
web services

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Computer Sciences

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