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7. Summary

The proposed work strives for a radical improvement in the ease and flexibility with which new file systems can be written and deployed. I expect the most significant contributions of my thesis to be:

1.
The first language for the abstract description of file system behavior.

2.
The first method for writing file systems without access to the sources for the target operating system.

3.
The first method for writing file systems that are portable across different operating systems.

4.
A mechanism to produce either kernel or user-level file systems from the same higher-level description.

5.
The performance degradation added by my mechanism would be small.



Erez Zadok
1999-12-07