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Specifying a Realistic File System

Logic in Computer Science 2015-11-16 v1 Operating Systems

Abstract

We present the most interesting elements of the correctness specification of BilbyFs, a performant Linux flash file system. The BilbyFs specification supports asynchronous writes, a feature that has been overlooked by several file system verification projects, and has been used to verify the correctness of BilbyFs's fsync() C implementation. It makes use of nondeterminism to be concise and is shallowly-embedded in higher-order logic.

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@article{arxiv.1511.04169,
  title  = {Specifying a Realistic File System},
  author = {Sidney Amani and Toby Murray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.04169},
  year   = {2015}
}

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In Proceedings MARS 2015, arXiv:1511.02528

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