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Ryan Bumann
dblp:341/3685
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0004-1676-7027ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Systems, architecture and hardware · 2 · 2 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
2 papers |
Storage systems · 100% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Software maintenance and evolution · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Storage systems
file systems |
1.5 | 2 | 2025 | Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems · ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 2025 ConfD: Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems for Fun and Profit · FAST 2023 |
Storage systems › storage reliability
file system reliability |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems · ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 2025 |
Storage systems
storage engine |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems · ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 2025 |
Software maintenance and evolution
software dependencies |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | ConfD: Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems for Fun and Profit · FAST 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
static analysis · 1.3static dependency extraction · 0.9plugin-based analysis · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File SystemsabstractFile systems play an essential role in modern society for managing precious data. To meet diverse needs, they often support many configuration parameters. Such flexibility comes at the price of additional complexity which can lead to subtle configuration-related issues. To address this challenge, we study the configuration-related issues of two major file systems (i.e., Ext4 and XFS) in depth, and identify a prevalent pattern called multilevel configuration dependencies. Based on the study, we build an extensible tool called ConfD to extract the dependencies automatically, and create a set of plugins to address different configuration-related issues. Our experiments on Ext4, XFS and a modern copy-on-write file system (i.e., ZFS) show that ConfD was able to extract 160 configuration dependencies for the file systems with a low false positive rate. Moreover, the dependency-guided plugins can identify various configuration issues (e.g., mishandling of configurations, regression test failures induced by valid configurations). In addition, we also explore the applicability of ConfD on a popular storage engine (i.e., WiredTiger). We hope that this comprehensive analysis of configuration dependencies of storage systems can shed light on addressing configuration-related challenges for the system community in general. Tabassum Mahmud, Om Rameshwar Gatla, Carson Love, Ryan Bumann, Varun S. Girimaji, Mai Zheng |
ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. | 5 |
| 2023 | ConfD: Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems for Fun and Profit
Tabassum Mahmud, Om Rameshwar Gatla, Carson Love, Ryan Bumann, Mai Zheng |
FAST | 5 |