Journaling File Systems paper

The paper was written for a University Course called Modern Operating System Technologies led by Prof. Freisleben and Michael Engel. It is written in german and covers the following topics:

• Introduction
• Journaling File Systems
  • Linux ext3
• BSD Fast File System
  • Introduction to the FFS
  • Introduction to UNIX files
  • Soft Updates
  • Soft Updates vs. Journaling
  • Performance
• The future
  • XFS
  • ReiserFS 4
  • WinFS

Paper

[339 KB] (in german)