Stackable File Systems for MS-Windows

The goal of this project is to provide the FiST Stackable File System infrastructure and FiST language for the MS-Windows OS. The challenge is that Windows is very different than Unix; Windows does not have a Unix-like VFS, but rather all file system activities are event driven. The first goal is to provide a flexible encryption file system that can be mounted on top of any Windows folder, whether it is on a local VFAT/NTFS drive, or a remote one from SMB/CIFS.

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  

Past Students:

# Name (click for home page) Program Period Current Location
1 Rakesh Narayan Iyer MS Sep 2004 - Dec 2005 Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (Palo Alto, CA)
2 Akshat Khandelwal MS May 2003 - Aug 2003 Stony Brook U. CS M.S. program (Stony Brook, NY)
3 Deepak Rao MS May 2003 - Aug 2003 Stony Brook U. CS M.S. program (Stony Brook, NY)

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