S-VFS: Searchable Virtual File System for an Intelligent Ubiquitous Storage
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With advances in ubiquitous environments, user demand for easy data-lookup is growing rapidly. Not only users but intelligent ubiquitous applications also require data-lookup services for a ubiquitous computing framework. This paper proposes a backward-compatible, searchable virtual file system (S-VFS) for easy data-lookup. We add search functionality to the VFS, the de facto standard abstraction layer over the file system. Users can find a file by its attributes without remembering the full path. S-VFS maintains the attributes and the indexing structures in a normal file per partition. It processes queries and returns the results in a form of a virtual directory. S-VFS is the modified VFS, but uses legacy file systems without any modification. Since S-VFS supports full backward compatibility, users can even browse hierarchically with the legacy path name. We implement S-VFS in Linux kernel 2.6.7-21. Experiments with randomly generated queries demonstrate outstanding lookup performance with a small overhead for indexing.
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- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E90-D No.6 pp.979-982
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- 2007/06/01
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- 1745-1361
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- 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.6.979
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- System Programs
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YongJoo SONG, YongJin CHOI, HyunBin LEE, Daeyeon PARK, "S-VFS: Searchable Virtual File System for an Intelligent Ubiquitous Storage" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E90-D, no. 6, pp. 979-982, June 2007, doi: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.6.979.
Abstract: With advances in ubiquitous environments, user demand for easy data-lookup is growing rapidly. Not only users but intelligent ubiquitous applications also require data-lookup services for a ubiquitous computing framework. This paper proposes a backward-compatible, searchable virtual file system (S-VFS) for easy data-lookup. We add search functionality to the VFS, the de facto standard abstraction layer over the file system. Users can find a file by its attributes without remembering the full path. S-VFS maintains the attributes and the indexing structures in a normal file per partition. It processes queries and returns the results in a form of a virtual directory. S-VFS is the modified VFS, but uses legacy file systems without any modification. Since S-VFS supports full backward compatibility, users can even browse hierarchically with the legacy path name. We implement S-VFS in Linux kernel 2.6.7-21. Experiments with randomly generated queries demonstrate outstanding lookup performance with a small overhead for indexing.
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AU - YongJoo SONG
AU - YongJin CHOI
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