A Study of Linux File System Evolution

1 January 2014

journal article
research article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Storage

Vol. 10 (1), 1-32
https://doi.org/10.1145/2560012

Abstract

We conduct a comprehensive study of file-system code evolution. By analyzing eight years of Linux file-system changes across 5079 patches, we derive numerous new (and sometimes surprising) insights into the file-system development process; our results should be useful for both the development of file systems themselves as well as the improvement of bug-finding tools.

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Funding Information

Google
VMware
Huawei Technologies
Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS-1218405, CCF-0937959, CSR-1017518, CCF-1016924, CNS-1319405)
Facebook
Samsung
Fusion-io
NetApp
EMC
Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CNS-1218405, CCF-0937959, CSR-1017518, CCF-1016924, CNS-1319405)
Microsoft
National Science Foundation (CNS-1218405, CCF-0937959, CSR-1017518, CCF-1016924, CNS-1319405)

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