The backup taken of a file system must be consistent, preserving data integrity across files in
the file system. With file system sizes getting very large, and with demand for continuous …

Supporting transactions within file systems entails very different issues than those in
Databases, wherein the size of writes per transaction are smaller. Traditional file systems …

The performance evaluation shows that for workloads resembling most present day real
workloads exhibiting low intertransactional sharing and actively accessing only a small …

The multi-tenant nature of cloud and provision of resources in terms of virtual machines
(VM's) establishes an immense need of rethinking about the applicability of earlier backup …

With the advent of large and fast storage devices (eg. SSDs, Flash Disks) file system sizes
have grown beyond bounds. Large volume of dynamically changing data makes it difficult to …