One of the applications we are building is a file system that uses BDB as
its backing store. This way we can experiment with different data
organization schemes and compare the efficiency of a BDB-based file system
to a native one (e.g., ext3). Our ultimate goal is to create a file system
that has the ACID properties (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and
Durability) of a database both internally and exported to the user. The VFS
layer manages several caches (inode, directory name lookup, and page) and
they are highly integrated. Having these caches in front of the database
engine means that providing ACID properties is not possible (because the
database needs to monitor all accesses). We are developing an
infrastructure that will handle both ACID-enabled and traditional file
systems simultaneously.
| # |
Name (click for home page) |
Program |
Period |
Current Location |
| 1 |
Nikolai Joukov |
PhD |
Jan 2004 - Dec 2006 |
Research Staff Member, Storage and Data Services Research group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Hawthorne, NY) |
| 2 |
Abhishek Rai |
PhD |
Sep 2003 - Aug 2005 |
Member of the Technical Staff, Structured Data Access group, VMware, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
| 3 |
Gopalan Sivathanu |
PhD |
Sep 2003 - May 2008 |
Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure group, Google (Mountain View, CA) |
| 4 |
Avishay Traeger |
PhD |
Sep 2003 - Aug 2008 |
Research Staff Member, Storage Systems and Performance Management group, IBM Tel Aviv Research Lab (Tel-Aviv, Israel) |
| 5 |
Charles P. Wright |
PhD |
May 2003 - May 2006 |
Research Staff Member, Network Server Systems Software group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Hawthorne, NY) |
| 6 |
Jay Pradip Dave |
MS |
May 2003 - Dec 2003 |
Software Design Engineer in Test (SDET), Windows Security and Access Control team (WSAC), Windows Security group, Core Operating Systems Division (COSD), Microsoft (Seattle, WA) |
| 7 |
Ramya Edara |
MS |
Jan 2007 - Dec 2007 |
Member of Technical staff (Developer), VFS group, engineering division, Riverbed (Sunnyvale, CA) |
| 8 |
Aditya Kashyap |
MS |
Sep 2003 - Dec 2004 |
Senior Analyst, Fixed Income Research group, Lehman Brothers (New York, NY) |
| 9 |
Harikesavan Pathangi Krishnan |
MS |
Jan 2003 - Dec 2003 |
Software Engineer, Engineering department for WAFS product line, Packeteer, Inc. (South Plainfield, NJ) |
| 10 |
Devaki Kulkarni |
MS |
Sep 2003 - Dec 2004 |
Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Performance and Storage groups, VMware, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
| 11 |
Gopala Suryanarayana |
MS |
Sep 2006 - Dec 2007 |
Member of the Technical Staff, Virtual Infrastructure Management group, VMware, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
| 12 |
Mohammad Nayyer Zubair |
MS |
Jan 2004 - Dec 2004 |
Software Engineer, Falconstor (Melville, NY) |
| 13 |
Rick Spillane |
BS/MS |
Jan 2005 - Dec 2007 |
Stony Brook U. CS Ph.D. program (Stony Brook, NY) |
| 14 |
Mohammad Nayyer Zubair |
BS |
May 2003 - Dec 2003 |
Stony Brook U. CS M.S. program (Stony Brook, NY) |