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Intelligent file systems for object repositories

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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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An intelligent file system implements flexible content-based associative access to file system data with a conservative extension of conventional tree structured file system naming semantics. Intelligent file systems are compatible with existing UNIX and NFS file systems and permit existing applications to take advantage of content based access to file system objects. Based upon our experience with an intelligent file system implementation we explore how an intelligent file system might be used in future operating systems to store structured objects.

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  1. MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Programming Systems Research Group, USA

    David K. Gifford & James W. O'Toole

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  1. David K. Gifford
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Arthur Karshmer Jürgen Nehmer

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Gifford, D.K., O'Toole, J.W. (1991). Intelligent file systems for object repositories. 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/BFb0024516

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