Varun S. Girimaji

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0001-5679-6592ORCID · reported

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Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Storage systems · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Storage systems
file systems
0.912025
Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems · ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 2025
Storage systems › storage reliability
file system reliability
0.912025
Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems · ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 2025
Storage systems
storage engine
0.312025
Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems · ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

static dependency extraction · 0.9plugin-based analysis · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems
abstract
File 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.6