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USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Controlling Your PLACE in the File System with Gray-box Techniques
We present the design and implementation of PLACE, a gray-box library for controlling file layout on top of FFSlike file systems. PLACE exploits its knowledge of FFS layout poli...
James A. Nugent, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H...
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Learning Spam: Simple Techniques For Freely-Available Software
The problem of automatically filtering out spam e-mail using a classifier based on machine learning methods is of great recent interest. This paper gives an introduction to mach...
Bart Massey, Mick Thomure, Raya Budrevich, Scott L...
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Network Programming for the Rest of Us
Twisted is a high-level networking framework that is built around event-driven asynchronous I/O. It supports TCP, SSL, UDP and other network transports. Twisted supports a wide va...
Glyph Lefkowitz, Itamar Shtull-Trauring
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
A Cooperative Internet Backup Scheme
We present a novel peer-to-peer backup technique that allows computers connected to the Internet to back up their data cooperatively: Each computer has a set of partner computers,...
Mark Lillibridge, Sameh Elnikety, Andrew Birrell, ...
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Operating System Support for Virtual Machines
Abstract: A virtual-machine monitor (VMM) is a useful technique for adding functionality below existing operating system and application software. One class of VMMs (called Type II...
Samuel T. King, George W. Dunlap, Peter M. Chen
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
The Design of the {OpenBSD} Cryptographic Framework
Cryptographic transformations are a fundamental building block in many security applications and protocols. To improve performance, several vendors market hardware accelerator car...
Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright, Theo de Raa...
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Seneca: remote mirroring done write
Minwen Ji, Alistair C. Veitch, John Wilkes
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Design and Implementation of Power-Aware Virtual Memory
Despite constant improvements in fabrication technology, hardware components are consuming more power than ever. With the everincreasing demand for higher performance in highly-in...
Hai Huang, Padmanabhan Pillai, Kang G. Shin
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Fast, Scalable Disk Imaging with Frisbee
Both researchers and operators of production systems are frequently faced with the need to manipulate entire disk images. Convenient and fast tools for saving, transferring, and i...
Mike Hibler, Leigh Stoller, Jay Lepreau, Robert Ri...
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
POSIX Access Control Lists on Linux
This paper discusses file system Access Control Lists as implemented in several UNIX-like operating systems. After recapitulating the concepts of these Access Control Lists that ...
Andreas Grünbacher