Title :
A DOS/Linux extensible file system
Author :
El Din Mahmoud, Mohamed Mohy ; El-Kadi, Amr
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., American Univ., Cairo, Egypt
Abstract :
The authors describe the architecture for an extensible virtual file system (VFS) which allows for the incorporation of a new file system along with existing ones. They describe extending file systems in the context of the DOS operating system. The new VFS file systems in the DOS environment will add features such as strongly typed well defined interfaces, location independent object invocation mechanism, and a flexible naming architecture. File systems such as the Second Extended File System (EXT2FS) and Minix were implemented for DOS to asses the practicality of the architecture
Keywords :
naming services; operating systems (computers); virtual storage; DOS operating system; DOS/Linux extensible file system; Minix; Second Extended File System; architecture; flexible naming architecture; location independent object invocation mechanism; strongly typed well defined interfaces; Cache storage; Computer architecture; Computer science; Cryptography; File systems; Kernel; Linux; Memory management; Operating systems; Proposals;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 1997. Proceedings., Second IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Alexandria
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7852-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.1997.616017
