Matthias Schmidt

Philipps University Marburg
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

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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

jfs_paper.pdf [339 KB] (in german)

Copyleft (l) 2002-05 by Matthias Schmidt.