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The USENIX Magazine

Titles in green are open to everyone. The others require USENIX membership until June 2008. All articles are in PDF format.

OPINION
Musings by Rik Farrow

FILE SYSTEMS
A Brief History of the BSD Fast File System by Marshall Kirk McKusick

Porting the Solaris ZFS File System to the FreeBSD Operating System by Pawel Jakub Dawidek and Marshall Kirk McKusick

Ext4: The Next Generation of the Ext3 File System by Avantika Mathur, Mingming Cao, and Andreas Dilger

SECURITY
A Quant Looks at the Future by Dan Geer

Supporting a Security Laboratory by Vassilis Prevelakis

LAW
Spam and Blogs. Part 2: Blogs, for Good or Ill by Daniel L. Appelman

Script Kiddies with Briefcases: The Legal System as Threat by Alexander Muentz

COLUMNS
Practical Perl Tools: Impractical Perl Tools by David Blank-Edelman

/dev/random by Robert G. Ferrell

   New! Listen to "/dev/random" read by its author!

BOOK REVIEWS
Book Reviews by Elizabeth Zwicky et al.

USENIX NOTES

Notice of Annual Meeting

In Memoriam: John W. Backus, 1924–2007 by Alex Aiken

CONFERENCE REPORTS
FAST '07: 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
      Addendum: "Towards a Federated Global-Scale Storage System" WiP Summary

LSF '07: 2007 Linux Storage & Filesystem Workshop