FAST '23 - ConfD: Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems for Fun and Profit

ConfD: Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems for Fun and Profit

Tabassum Mahmud, Om Rameshwar Gatla, Duo Zhang, Carson Love, Ryan Bumann, and Mai Zheng, Iowa State University

File systems play an essential role in modern society for managing precious data. To meet diverse needs, they often support many configuration parameters. Such flexibility comes at the price of additional complexity which can lead to subtle configuration-related issues. To address this challenge, we study the configuration-related issues of two major file …

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