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Third USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies (COOTS), 1997
Frigate: An Object-Oriented File System for Ordinary Users
Ted H. Kim, Gerald J. Popek
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract
Vendors cannot provide all the operating system services that users
demand. As a result, there has been a persistent desire to make
operating systems more flexible and customizable. It is natural that
object-oriented technology would come to bear on this area. However,
many solutions have been disappointing when it comes to ease of use.
This paper describes the design and implementation of Frigate, an
object-oriented file system. The goal of Frigate is to provide a
modular, extensible framework. The framework allows new extensions to
be "plugged-in" on the fly. Frigate's focus differs from most other
file system designs in that it is targeted for use by ordinary
users rather than by sophisticated operating system gurus. Thus,
ease of use is a very important concern in the design. Frigate is
fully implemented and supports a set of example file system
extensions.
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