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Versatility and Unix Semantics in a Fan-Out Unification File System  (Make Corrections)  
Puja Gupta, Harikesavan Krishnan, Charles P. Wright, Mohammad Nayyer Zubair, Jay Dave, Erez Zadok



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Abstract: Administrators often prefer to keep related sets of files in different locations or media, as it is easier to maintain those files separately. Users, on the other hand, prefer to see all files in one location for convenient access. One solution that accommodates both needs is a virtual unification of disparate directories---a file system that provides a merged view of several directories, without physically merging them. Unification can be used to provide copy-on-write semantics for read-only... (Update)

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@misc{ gupta-versatility,
  author = "Puja Gupta and Harikesavan Krishnan and Charles P. Wright and Mohammad
    Nayyer Zubair and Jay Dave and Erez Zadok",
  title = "Versatility and Unix Semantics in a Fan-Out Unification File System",
  url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/702953.html" }
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