Unifying File System Protection

This paper describes an efficient and elegant architecture for unifying the meta-data protection of journaling file systems with the data integrity protection of collision-resistant cryptographic hashes. Traditional file system journaling protects the ordering of meta-data operations to maintain consistency in the presence of crashes. However, journaling does not protect important system meta-data and application data from modification or misrepresentation by faulty or malicious storage

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: USENIX
• Authors: Christopher A. Stein, John H. Howard, Margo I. Seltzer
• Keywords: File System, Meta-data, Meta-data Protection, Operating System, USENIX 2001