Stackable Extended Attributes

Extended Attributes (EAs) allow arbitrary meta-data to be attached to a file, but presently this requires that each file system implement them, which may not be practical. Stackable file systems offer a way to provide EAs on any file system, without modifying on-disk structures or network protocols. This project investigaes how to use existing EAs and augment them so a to provide a uniform API to EAs for kernel software and user applications.

Past Students:

#	Name (click for home page)	Program	Period	Current Location
1	Charles P. Wright	PhD	May 2003 - May 2006	Research Staff Member, Network Server Systems Software group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Hawthorne, NY)
2	Devaki Kulkarni	MS	Sep 2003 - Dec 2004	Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Performance and Storage groups, VMware, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)

(Last updated: Tue Feb 6 21:04:26 EST 2007)