... Linux¹

This work has been supported by Veritas Software, Pune/MtView but they are not responsible for its contents. Nitin is currently at Veritas Software, Pune; Suresh at Lucent Technologies, Bangalore and Pankaj at Lucent Bell Labs, NJ

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... applications²

By the term application or user process in this paper, we mean root privileged processes, such as fsck. Storage devices are protected resources and are generally not directly accessible by unprivileged processes.

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... partitions³

Redundancy for the information on the private partitions remains part of future work.

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... applications⁴

This is a common Unix approach, used for example, in fsck, X, to access kernel data through kmem, proc, etc

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... RAID5⁵

The source of this is available under GNU GPL. Pl. send e-mail for the exact location.

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... 2.2.5⁶

The current status of the Linux implementation: Though the prototype works correctly for the case of 5 ``virtual disks'' on one physical disk, it does not yet work properly for the case of 5 physical disks (the useful case).

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... semantics⁷

We omit discussion of the logging approach as it has been currently implemented on Solaris only.

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