@InProceedings{grimshaw:elfs, author = {Andrew S. Grimshaw and Loyot, Jr., Edmond C.}, title = {{ELFS:} Object-oriented Extensible File Systems}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the First International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems}, year = {1991}, month = {December}, pages = {177}, earlier = {grimshaw:ELFSTR}, later = {grimshaw:objects}, keywords = {parallel I/O, parallel file system, object-oriented, file system interface, pario-bib}, comment = {Full paper grimshaw:ELFSTR. Really neat idea. Uses OO interface to file system, which is mostly in user mode. The object classes represent particular access patterns (e.g., 2-D matrix) in the file, and hide the actual structure of the file. The object knows enough to taylor the cache and prefetch algorithms to the semantics. Class inheritance allows layering.} }