CS 182-2, Spring 2006
File Systems

• Class Calendar
• Prof. Kuenning's weekly schedule
• Grading criteria

CS182-2 is a reading course in file systems, with an emphasis on current research directions. It will be taught in the manner of a graduate seminar, with much of the material selected by and presented by the students.

Resources

Conferences

• FAST (File and Storage Technologies): 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002.
• SOSP (Symposium on Operating Systems Principles): 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1997.
• OSDI (Operating Systems Design and Implementation): 2004, 2002, 2000, 1999, 1996, 1994.
• Usenix (Usenix Annual Technical Conference)
• IEEE Mass Storage Conference (MassStor)
• ACM SIGMOD
• VLDB

There are many more conferences than these,

Journals

• Communications of the ACM (older issues)
• IEEE Computer (older issues)
• ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
• IEEE Transactions on Computers (sometimes)
• Software—Practice and Experience

Bibliographies

A number of people have created bibliographies of file-system-related papers. Some of them are even fairly up to date.

• Citeseer is one of the best places to search out CS papers.
• Ron Oldfield's parallel I/O bibliography.
• Bibliography on distributed file systems.
• Large archive storage systems bibliography.
• Francisco Rosales's somewhat outdated bibliography.

Grading Criteria

The grading class will be based on participation (10%) and a final project (90%). The project grading will be broken down as follows:

• Project proposal: 5%. Criteria are completeness of the proposal and general writing quality.
• Preliminary report: 20%. Criteria are writing quality, completeness of the report, and progress toward the goal.
• Draft of final report: 15%. Criteria are completeness and writing quality.
• In-class presentation: 10%. Criteria are completeness and quality.
• Final report: 40%. Criteria are overall project quality and writing quality.

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