A brief history of the BSD fast file system
Marshall Kirk McKusick · ;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE · 2007
I first started working on the UNIX file system with Bill Joy in the late 1970s. I wrote the Fast File System, now called UFS, in the early 1980s. In this article, I have written a survey of the work that I and the others have done to improve the BSD file systems. Much of this research has been incorporated into other file system.