Exploring the design space of metadata-focused file management systems

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Watson, Richard, Dekeyser, Stijn and Albadri, Nehad. 2017. "Exploring the design space of metadata-focused file management systems." Australasian Computer Science Week 2017 (ACSW 2017). Geelong, Australia 31 Jan - 03 Feb 2017 New York, United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/3014812.3014833
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Exploring the design space of metadata-focused file management systems

Presentation TypePaper
AuthorsWatson, Richard (Author), Dekeyser, Stijn (Author) and Albadri, Nehad (Author)
Journal or Proceedings TitleProceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference
ERA Conference ID42479
Number of Pages10
Year2017
Place of PublicationNew York, United States
ISBN9781450347686
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1145/3014812.3014833
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Abstract

Operating systems both old and new are reliant on the venerable hierarchical file system. For some time now, however, attempts have been made to either define new file systems or to bolt on applications that offer much improved functionality to attach and use metadata. This is because researchers have shown that traditional file systems are not able to meet users' needs in terms of organising large numbers of files effectively, and to support expeditious retrieval of those files when they are needed at a later time.

Numerous proposals for post-hierarchical file management systems have been described in the literature; researchers focus on different dimensions of such systems in order to solve or reduce identified limitations. In some cases this leads to significantly different file system architectures, while in other cases new functionality is added on top of a traditional system through special purpose user-space applications. Orthogonally, some proposals focus on tags while others favour named attribute-value pairs. Still other choices are, seemingly, made in an ad hoc and often implicit manner.

This paper investigates the different dimensions and associated choices that participate in the proposal of new approaches and that affect their ability to improve on current systems. The Cartesian product of those dimensions and options forms a large design space; we map some of the existing literature onto that design space and discuss approaches to evaluate new proposals.

KeywordsFile systems, metadata, classification, tags, attributes.
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020461206. Software architecture
460909. Information systems philosophy, research methods and theory
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