irtualization Aware File Systems: Getting Beyond the Limitations of Virtual Disks Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:705213, abstract = {<!-- CHANGE -->Virtual disks are the main form of storage in today's virtual machine environments. They offer many attractive features, including whole system versioning, isolation, and mobility, that are absent from current file systems. Unfortunately, the low-level interface of virtual disks is very coarse-grained, forcing all-or- nothing whole system rollback, and opaque, offering no practical means of sharing. These problems impose serious limitations on virtual disks' usability, security, and ease of management. <P> To overcome these limitations, we offer Ventana, a <DFN>virtualization aware file system</DFN>. Ventana combines the file-based storage and sharing benefits of a conventional distributed file system with the versioning, mobility, and access control features that make virtual disks so compelling.}, author = {Pfaff, Ben and Garfinkel, Tal and Rosenblum, Mendel}, citeulike-article-id = {705213}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi06/tech/pfaff.html}, journal = {NSDI '06}, keywords = {limitations, virtual-disks}, pages = {353--366}, posted-at = {2007-10-24 23:14:03}, priority = {3}, title = {irtualization Aware File Systems: Getting Beyond the Limitations of Virtual Disks}, url = {http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi06/tech/pfaff.html} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:705213 L3 - citeulike-article-id:705213 N2 - <!-- CHANGE -->Virtual disks are the main form of storage in today's virtual machine environments. They offer many attractive features, including whole system versioning, isolation, and mobility, that are absent from current file systems. Unfortunately, the low-level interface of virtual disks is very coarse-grained, forcing all-or- nothing whole system rollback, and opaque, offering no practical means of sharing. These problems impose serious limitations on virtual disks' usability, security, and ease of management. <P> To overcome these limitations, we offer Ventana, a <DFN>virtualization aware file system</DFN>. Ventana combines the file-based storage and sharing benefits of a conventional distributed file system with the versioning, mobility, and access control features that make virtual disks so compelling. JF - NSDI '06 EP - 366 TI - irtualization Aware File Systems: Getting Beyond the Limitations of Virtual Disks SP - 353 KW - limitations KW - virtual-disks AU - Pfaff, Ben AU - Garfinkel, Tal AU - Rosenblum, Mendel UR - http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi06/tech/pfaff.html ER -