Title :
Frigate: a user-extensible OO file system
Author :
Kim, Ted H. ; Popek, Gerald J.
Author_Institution :
California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
Vendors cannot provide all the operating-system services that users demand. So, there has been a persistent desire to make operating systems more flexible and customizable. Naturally, object-oriented technology has come to bear on this area. However the ease of use of many such solutions has been disappointing. Ease of use is a key feature of Frigate, an object-oriented file system. It differs from most file system designs in that it´s for ordinary users, not sophisticated operating system gurus. Frigate´s modular, extensible framework allows new extensions to be “plugged in” on the fly. It is fully implemented and supports a set of example file system extensions
Keywords :
file organisation; object-oriented methods; operating systems (computers); Frigate; OO file system; extensible framework; file system; file system extensions; operating systems; File servers; File systems; Kernel; Object oriented modeling; Operating systems; Programming profession; Protocols; Runtime;
Journal_Title :
Concurrency, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4434.736411
