A Stackable Versioning File System

This project builds a stackable versioning file system. The goals are that the versioning file system work on top of any other file system, that it be easy to use, that it have a low performance and storage overhead, and be extensible to advanced users and application developers. We consider version retention policies to limit the number of versions stored by number, total space consumed, or time. We consider versioning storage policies for version files based on full copy, compression, and several modes of sparse files.

Journal Articles:

#	Title (click for html version)	Formats	Published In	Date	Comments
1	On Incremental File System Development	PS PDF BibTeX	ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)	May 2006

Conference and Workshop Papers:

#	Title (click for html version)	Formats	Published In	Date	Comments
1	A Versatile and User-Oriented Versioning File System	PS PDF BibTeX	Third USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2004)	Apr 2004

Technical Reports:

#	Title (click for html version)	Formats	Published In	Date	Comments
1	Versionfs: A Versatile and User-Oriented Versioning File System	PS PDF BibTeX	Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-03-03	Dec 2003	M.S. Thesis

Past Students:

#	Name (click for home page)	Program	Period	Current Location
1	Charles P. Wright	PhD	May 2003 - May 2006	Research Staff Member, Network Server Systems Software group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Hawthorne, NY)
2	Naveen Gupta	MS	Sep 2004 - Dec 2005	Member of the Technical Staff, Systems Software group, Google (Mountain View, CA)
3	Andrew Himmer	MS	Sep 2002 - May 2003	Software Engineer, Multi-Version File System Developer (MVFS), IBM Rational (Lexington, MA)
4	Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy	MS	Jan 2002 - May 2004	Harvard University CS Ph.D. program (Cambridge, MA)

Sponsors:

#	Sponsor	Amount	Period	Type	Title (click for award abstract)
1	NSF Trusted Computing (TC)	$400,000	2003-2006	Sole PI	A Layered Approach to Securing Network File Systems

(Last updated: Thu Jun 14 13:59:03 EDT 2007)