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eduFUSE a Visualizer for User-Space File Systems

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Luke Thompson,

Joel Clarke,

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ITiCSE '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Pages 549 - 550

https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3393989

Published: 15 June 2020 Publication History

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File systems are a significant topic in operating systems courses and a good understanding of them is important for software developers in order to use them well. One way to give students hands-on experience with the file system layers is via simulation, another way is to create a real file system which works with the operating system. Both of these approaches have difficulties. A user-space file system such as FUSE can solve these difficulties. We have developed eduFUSE, a system which provides a GUI interface to user-space file systems on both Linux and macOS. Not only does this system provide improved visualization and easier information filtering than the standard text based user-space file system tools, but it also provides both a C interface and an improved Java interface so that students can use whichever language they prefer to build a realistic file system in a safe environment. Students with experience of standard FUSE rated the GUI interface well above that of the traditional system.

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eduFUSE a Visualizer for User-Space File Systems
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Interactive learning environments
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Visualization
    1. Visualization application domains
      1. Information visualization

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ITiCSE '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

June 2020

615 pages

ISBN:9781450368742

DOI:10.1145/3341525

General Chairs:
Michail Giannakos
NTNU, Norway
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Guttorm Sindre
Excited/NTNU, Norway
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Andrew Luxton-Reilly
University of Auckland, NZ
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Monica Divitini
NTNU, Norway

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ITiCSE '20: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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