Annotation for automation
Kuei Sun, Daniel Fryer, Angela Demke Brown, Ashvin Goel · 2013
Today file system tools and file-system aware storage applications are tightly coupled with file system implementations. Developing these applications is challenging because it requires detailed knowledge of the file system format, and the code for interpreting file system metadata has to be written manually. This code is complex and file-system specific, and so the application requires significant re-engineering to support different file systems.