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File system indexing, and backup

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Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 563))

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This paper briefly proposes two operating system ideas: indexing for file systems, and backup by replication rather than tape copy. Both of these ideas have been implemented in various non-operating system contexts; the proposal here is that they become operating system functions.

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  1. Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.I.T. Room NE43-513, 02139, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Jerome H. Saltzer

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Arthur Karshmer Jürgen Nehmer

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Saltzer, J.H. (1991). File system indexing, and backup. In: Karshmer, A., Nehmer, J. (eds) Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024515

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