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5.3 Lessons to be Learned
Lessons I expect to learn from this work include:
- 1.
- How easy or hard it is to use FiST to describe file systems at a high
level -- something that has never been done before.
- 2.
- The degree of portability of FiST-generated file systems across
different platforms.
- 3.
- The performance of FiST-generated file systems compared to equivalent
hand-written, optimized file systems.
- 4.
- The performance of identical file systems when run in-kernel
versus at user level.
- 5.
- How difficult it is to write a file system from scratch versus
describing it in FiST.
Erez Zadok
1999-12-07