FSL Publications

Books:

# Title (click for html version) Formats Published In Date Comments
1 Linux NFS and Automounter Administration BibTeX Sybex May 2001 See Book home page

Conference and Workshop Papers:

# Title (click for html version) Formats Published In Date Comments
1 Aspect-Oriented Instrumentation with GCC BibTeX 1st International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV 2010) Nov 2010 to appear
2 Exporting Kernel Page Caching for Efficient User-Level I/O BibTeX IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2010) May 2010  
3 Towards a Secure and Efficient System for End-to-End Provenance PS PDF BibTeX 2nd Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TAPP 2010) Feb 2010  
4 Evaluating Performance and Energy in File System Server Workloads PS PDF BibTeX Eighth USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2010) Feb 2010  
5 The Visual Development of GCC Plug-ins PS PDF BibTeX Proceedings of the 2009 GCC Developers' Summit Jun 2009  
6 DHIS: Discriminating Hierarchical Storage PS PDF BibTeX The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference (ACM SYSTOR 2009) May 2009  
7 Energy and Performance Evaluation of Lossless File Data Compression on Server Systems PS PDF BibTeX The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference (ACM SYSTOR 2009) May 2009  
8 Story Book: An Efficient Extensible Provenance Framework PS PDF BibTeX 1st Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TAPP 2009) Feb 2009  
9 Enabling Transactional File Access via Lightweight Kernel Extensions PS PDF BibTeX Seventh USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2009) Feb 2009  
10 Selective Versioning in a Secure Disk System PS PDF BibTeX 17th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '08) Jul 2008  
11 DARC: Dynamic Analysis of Root Causes of Latency Distributions PS PDF BibTeX International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2008) Jun 2008 Source code and benchmark information.
12 GreenFS: Making Enterprise Computers Greener by Protecting Them Better PS PDF BibTeX Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2008 (EuroSys 2008) Apr 2008 Won Best Paper Award
13 Software Monitoring with Bounded Overhead BibTeX NSF Next Generation Software Workshop (NSF NGS 2008) held in conjunction with the 22st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008) Apr 2008  
14 PLEASE: Policy Language for the Easy Administration of SELinux BibTeX The Second Annual Computer Security Conference (CSC 2008) Apr 2008  
15 The layers are coming, the layers are coming BibTeX First Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop, held in conjuction with the sixth USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2008) Feb 2008  
16 Exploiting Type-Awareness in a Self-Recovering Disk PS PDF BibTeX Third ACM International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2007) held in conjunction with the 14th ACM CCS. Oct 2007  
17 Round-Trip Privacy with NFSv4 PS PDF BibTeX Third ACM International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2007) held in conjunction with the 14th ACM CCS. Oct 2007 Source code and benchmark information.
18 RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems PS PDF BibTeX IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2007) Sep 2007  
19 Extending GCC with Modular GIMPLE Optimizations PS PDF BibTeX Proceedings of the 2007 GCC Developers' Summit Jul 2007  
20 Rapid File System Development Using ptrace PS PDF BibTeX Proceedings of the Workshop on Experimental Computer Science (EXPCS 2007), in conjunction with ACM FCRC Jun 2007  
21 Kernel Support for Stackable File Systems PS PDF BibTeX 2007 Ottawa Linux Symposium Jun 2007  
22 AutoFS - An Automounting File System for FreeBSD 6.x PS PDF BibTeX Proceedings of the 2007 BSDCan Technical BSD Conference May 2007  
23 Model Predictive Control for Memory Profiling PS PDF BibTeX NSF Next Generation Software Workshop (NSF NGS 2007) held in conjunction with the 21st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007) Mar 2007  
24 Making Linux Stacking-Friendly BibTeX First Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop, held in conjuction with the fifth USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2007) Feb 2007  
25 Operating System Profiling via Latency Analysis PS PDF BibTeX Seventh USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2006) Nov 2006  
26 Type-Safe Disks PS PDF BibTeX Seventh USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2006) Nov 2006  
27 Secure Deletion Myths, Issues, and Solutions PS PDF BibTeX Second ACM International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2006) held in conjunction with the 13th ACM CCS. Oct 2006  
28 Using Free Web Storage for Data Backup PS PDF BibTeX Second ACM International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2006) held in conjunction with the 13th ACM CCS. Oct 2006  
29 UnionFS: User- and Community-oriented Development of a Unification Filesystem PS PDF BibTeX 2006 Ottawa Linux Symposium Jul 2006  
30 Compiler-Assisted Software Verification Using Plug-Ins PS PDF BibTeX NSF Next Generation Software Workshop (NSF NGS 2006) held in conjunction with the 20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006) Apr 2006  
31 Runtime Verification for High-Confidence Systems: A Monte Carlo Approach PS PDF BibTeX Second Workshop on Model Based Testing (MBT 2006) held in conjunction with ETAPS 2006 Mar 2006  
32 Accurate and Efficient Replaying of File System Traces PS PDF BibTeX Fourth USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2005) Dec 2005  
33 Adding Secure Deletion to Your Favorite File System PS PDF BibTeX Third IEEE Security In Storage Workshop (SISW 2005) Dec 2005  
34 Ensuring Data Integrity in Storage: Techniques and Applications PS PDF BibTeX First ACM International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2005) held in conjunction with the 12th ACM CCS. Nov 2005  
35 Kefence: An Electric Fence for Kernel Buffers PS PDF BibTeX First ACM International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2005) held in conjunction with the 12th ACM CCS. Nov 2005 Won Best Short Paper Award.
36 Increasing Distributed Storage Survivability with a Stackable RAID-like File System PS PDF BibTeX First IEEE/ACM Workshop on Cluster Security, in conjunction with the Fifth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005) May 2005 Won Best Paper Award
37 Auto-pilot: A Platform for System Software Benchmarking PS PDF BibTeX Usenix Technical Conference, FREENIX Track Apr 2005  
38 Efficient and Safe Execution of User-Level Code in the Kernel PS PDF BibTeX NSF Next Generation Software Workshop, in conjunction with IPDPS 2005 Apr 2005  
39 I3FS: An In-Kernel Integrity Checker and Intrusion Detection File System PS PDF BibTeX Usenix Large Installation Systems Administration Conference (LISA 18) Nov 2004  
40 Avfs: An On-Access Anti-Virus File System PS PDF BibTeX 13th USENIX Security Symposium (Security 2004) Aug 2004  
41 A Versatile and User-Oriented Versioning File System PS PDF BibTeX Third USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2004) Apr 2004  
42 Tracefs: A File System to Trace Them All PS PDF BibTeX Third USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2004) Apr 2004  
43 Reducing Storage Management Costs via Informed User-Based Policies PS PDF BibTeX NASA/IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2004) Apr 2004  
44 Cryptographic File Systems Performance: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You PS PDF BibTeX 2003 IEEE Security In Storage Workshop (SISW 2003) Oct 2003  
45 NCryptfs: A Secure and Convenient Cryptographic File System PS PDF BibTeX Slides Usenix Technical Conference, General Track Jun 2003  
46 Cosy: Develop in User-Land, Run in Kernel-Mode PS PDF BibTeX 9th Workshop in Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS IX) May 2003  
47 High-Confidence Operating Systems PS PDF BibTeX Tenth ACM SIGOPS European Workshop Sep 2002  
48 Enhancing NFS Cross-Administrative Domain Access PS PDF BibTeX Usenix Technical Conference, FREENIX Track Jun 2002  
49 Overhauling Amd for the '00s: A Case Study of GNU Autotools PS PDF BibTeX Usenix Technical Conference, FREENIX Track Jun 2002  
50 MEF, Malicious Email Filter--A UNIX Mail Filter That Detects Malicious Windows Executables PS PDF BibTeX Usenix Technical Conference, FREENIX Track Jun 2001 Won Best Student Paper Award
51 Fast Indexing: Support for Size-Changing Algorithms in Stackable File System PS PDF BibTeX Usenix Technical Conference Jun 2001  
52 Data Mining Methods for Detection of New Malicious Executables PS PDF BibTeX IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy May 2001  
53 Toward Cost-Sensitive Modeling for Intrusion Detection and Response PS PDF BibTeX Workshop on Intrusion Detection and Prevention, held as part of ACM CCS 2000 Nov 2000  
54 FiST: A Language for Stackable File Systems PS PDF BibTeX Usenix Technical Conference Jun 2000  
55 Extending File Systems Using Stackable Templates PS PDF BibTeX Usenix Technical Conference Jun 1999  
56 A Stackable File System Interface For Linux PS PDF BibTeX LinuxExpo 99 May 1999  
57 HLFSD: Delivering Email to your $HOME PS PDF BibTeX Usenix Systems Administration (LISA VII) Conference Nov 1993  
58 Discovery and Hot Replacement of Replicated Read-Only File Systems, with Application to Mobile Computing PS PDF BibTeX Usenix Summer Conference Jun 1992  

Journal and Magazine Articles:

# Title (click for html version) Formats Published In Date Comments
1 Software Monitoring with Controllable Overhead BibTeX International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) Dec 2010 invited submission, under review
2 Optimizing Energy and Performance for Server-Class File System Workloads BibTeX ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) Aug 2010 To appear
3 The Case for Specialized File Systems, or, Fighting File System Obesity PDF BibTeX ;login: The USENIX Magazine Feb 2010  
4 Unifying Biological Image Formats with HDF5 BibTeX Communications of the ACM Oct 2009  
5 Notes on a Nine Year Study of File System and Storage Benchmarking BibTeX Byte and Switch Jul 2009  
6 End-to-End Abstractions for Application-Aware Storage PS PDF BibTeX   Feb 2009 Under Review
7 Findings from the First Annual Storage and File Systems Benchmarking Workshop PDF BibTeX ;login: The USENIX Magazine Oct 2008  
8 A Nine Year Study of File System and Storage Benchmarking PS PDF BibTeX ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) May 2008 Online data appendix
9 Extending ACID Semantics to the File System PS PDF BibTeX ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) Jun 2007  
10 On Incremental File System Development PS PDF BibTeX ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) May 2006  
11 Versatility and Unix Semantics in Namespace Unification PS PDF BibTeX ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) Feb 2006  
12 Unionfs: Bringing File Systems Together BibTeX Linux Journal Dec 2004  
13 Using the Amd Automounter BibTeX Linux Journal Oct 2003  
14 Writing Stackable Filesystems BibTeX Linux Journal May 2003 Software described in article
15 Toward Cost-Sensitive Modeling for Intrusion Detection and Response PS PDF BibTeX Journal of Computer Security Jan 2002 Expanded version of CCS 2000 paper

Manuals:

# Title (click for html version) Formats Published In Date Comments
1 The Auto-pilot Benchmarking Suite User Manual PS PDF BibTeX   Jul 2005 See an all-in-one version.
2 Am-utils 6.1 (4.4 BSD Automounter Utilities) User Manual PS PDF BibTeX   Aug 2003 See a frames version and an all-in-one version.

Technical Reports:

# Title (click for html version) Formats Published In Date Comments
1 Stopping Data Races Using Redflag PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-10-02 May 2010 M.S. Thesis
2 Optimizing Energy and Performance for Server-Class File System Workloads PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-10-01 May 2010 M.S. Thesis
3 Flexible Debugging with Controllable Overhead PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-09-01 Aug 2009 Ph.D. Thesis
4 SAMT Performace Proof PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-09-03 Jun 2009  
5 The Visual Development of GCC Plug-ins with GDE, PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-09-04 Apr 2009 M.S. Thesis
6 Energy and Performance Evaluation of Lossless File Data Compression on Computer Systems PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-09-02 Apr 2009 M.S. Thesis
7 Protecting Control Files With File System Transactions PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-08-05 Aug 2008  
8 Analyzing Root Causes of Latency Distributions PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-08-04 Jul 2008 Ph.D. Thesis
Source code and benchmark information
9 Techniques for Visualizing Software Execution PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-08-03 Mar 2008 Ph.D. Research Proficiency Exam (RPE)
10 Remote Debugging with Controllable Overhead PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-08-02 Mar 2008 Ph.D. Thesis Proposal
11 End-to-End Abstractions for Application-Aware Storage PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-08-01 Mar 2008 Ph.D. Thesis
12 PLEASE: Policy Language for Easy Administration of SELinux PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-07-02 May 2007 M.S. Thesis
13 A Nine Year Study of File System and Storage Benchmarking PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-07-01 May 2007 Online data appendix
14 Versatile, Portable, and Efficient File System Profiling PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-06-05 Dec 2006 Ph.D. Thesis: an expanded version of our OSDI 2006 paper.
15 Extending ACID Semantics to the File System via ptrace PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-06-04 May 2006 Ph.D. Thesis
16 Latency as a Viable Metric for OS Profiling BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-06-03 Apr 2006  
17 Rapid File System Development Using ptrace BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-06-02 Jan 2006  
18 Extending ACID Semantics to the File System BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-06-01 Jan 2006  
19 A Versatile Persistent Caching Framework for File Systems PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-05-05 Dec 2005  
20 Benchmarking File System Benchmarks BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-05-04 Dec 2005 Kernel Config and Slowfs Source Code used in this paper. Presented as a FAST 2005 BOF session (where you can find PDFs of slide presentations).
21 Storage Virtualization with a Stackable File System BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-05-03 Dec 2005 M.S. Thesis
22 Runtime Verification for High-Confidence OS Kernels: A Monte Carlo Approach BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-05-02 Nov 2005  
23 On the Role of Static Analysis in Operating System Checking and Runtime Verification PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-05-01 May 2005 Ph.D. Research Proficiency Exam (RPE)
24 File System Extensibility and Reliability Using an in-Kernel Database PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-04-06 Dec 2004 M.S. Thesis
25 Versatility and Unix Semantics in a Fan-Out Unification File System PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-04-01b Oct 2004  
26 Versatile File System Tracing with Tracefs PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-04-05 Aug 2004 M.S. Thesis
27 Enhancing File System Integrity Through Checksums PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-04-04 May 2004  
28 NFS File Handle Security PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-04-03 May 2004  
29 Operating System Support for Extensible Secure File Systems PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-04-02 May 2004 Ph.D. Research Proficiency Exam (RPE)
30 Versionfs: A Versatile and User-Oriented Versioning File System PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-03-03 Dec 2003 M.S. Thesis
31 Cryptographic File Systems Performance: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-03-02 Aug 2003 Slightly expanded version of SISW'03 paper with same title.
32 A System for Improving Application Performance Through System Call Composition PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-03-03 Jun 2003 M.S. Thesis
33 Reducing Storage Management Costs via Informed User-Based Policies PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-03-01 Mar 2003  
34 Improving Application Performance Through System Call Composition PS PDF BibTeX Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-02-01 Jun 2002  
35 The Design and Implementation of Elastic Quotas: A System for Flexible File System Management PS PDF BibTeX Columbia U. CS TechReport CUCS-014-02 Jun 2002  
36 FiST: A System for Stackable File System Code Generation PS PDF BibTeX Columbia University May 2001 Ph.D. Dissertation
37 Stackable File Systems As a Security Tool PS PDF BibTeX Columbia U. CS TechReport CUCS-036-99 Dec 1999  
38 Usenetfs: A Stackable File System for Large Article Directories PS PDF BibTeX Columbia U. CS TechReport CUCS-022-98 Jul 1998  
39 Cryptfs: A Stackable Vnode Level Encryption File System PS PDF BibTeX Columbia U. CS TechReport CUCS-021-98 Jun 1998 This tech-report had been cited more than 15 times before the new version of the work was published -- NCryptfs.
40 Discovery and Hot Replacement of Replicated Read-Only File Systems, with Application to Mobile Computing PS PDF BibTeX Columbia University Oct 1997 M.S. Thesis
41 FiST: A File System Component Compiler PS PDF BibTeX Columbia University Apr 1997 Ph.D. Thesis Proposal
42 PGMAKE: A Portable Distributed Make System PS PDF BibTeX Columbia U. CS TechReport CUCS-035-94 Jul 1994 See PGmake home page

Works In Progress:

# Title (click for html version) Formats Published In Date Comments
1 Fast Indexing: Support for Size-Changing Algorithms in Stackable File System PS PDF BibTeX   Oct 2001 Expanded version of Usenix 2001 paper


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