Specifying a Realistic File System

Sidney Amani
Toby Murray
(NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia)

We present the most interesting elements of the correctness specification of BilbyFs, a performant Linux flash file system. The BilbyFs specification supports asynchronous writes, a feature that has been overlooked by several file system verification projects, and has been used to verify the correctness of BilbyFs's fsync() C implementation. It makes use of nondeterminism to be concise and is shallowly-embedded in higher-order logic.

In Rob van Glabbeek, Jan Friso Groote and Peter Höfner: Proceedings Workshop on Models for Formal Analysis of Real Systems (MARS 2015), Suva, Fiji, November 23, 2015, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 196, pp. 1–9.
Published: 8th November 2015.

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