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A failure tolerant filing system
Author(s) -
Whaley Alfred D.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380020311
Subject(s) - random access , computer science , intervention (counseling) , file system , constant (computer programming) , reliability engineering , operating system , engineering , medicine , psychiatry , programming language
A random access tree structure filing system has been constructed that is immune to operating system or internal failures through constant maintenance of a correct data structure on disk. Emphasis is placed on the fail‐safe nature of the filing system, the speed of access to random lines in a data file and the low level of human intervention required over an extended period of time.