Articles by Marshall Kirk McKusick

• M. McKusick, B. Rice, ``The Evolution of FreeBSD Governance'', The FreeBSD Journal, 4, 5. pp 12-23, September 2017

• M. McKusick, ``A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem'', The FreeBSD Journal, 3, 2. pp 12-23, March 2016

• M. McKusick, J. Roberson, ``The FreeBSD ULE Scheduler'', The FreeBSD Journal, 1, 5. pp 20-26, September 2014

• M. McKusick, J. Roberson, ``Journaled Soft-updates'', The FreeBSD Journal, 1, 2. pp 30-36, March 2014

• A. Ma, C. Dragga, A. Arpaci-Dusseau, R. Arpaci-Dusseu, M. McKusick, ``Ffsck: The fast file-system checker'', ACM Transactions on Storage 10, 1. pp 1-28, January 2014.

• M. McKusick, ``Improving the Performance of fsck in FreeBSD'', Usenix ;login: Magazine, 38, 2. pp 20-22, April 2013.

• M. McKusick, ``Disks from the Perspective of a File System'', Communications of the ACM 55, 11. pp 53-55, November 2012.

• M. McKusick, ``Disks from the Perspective of a File System'', ACM Queue 10, 9. September 2012.

• M. McKusick, J. Roberson, ``Journaled Soft-updates'', Proceedings of the 2010 European BSD Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2010.

• B. Zeeb, M. McKusick, ``BSDCan 2008 FreeBSD Developer summit summary'' Proceedings of the 2008 BSD Canada Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 2008.

• M. McKusick, ``A Brief History of the BSD Fast File System'', Usenix ;login: Magazine, 32, 3. pp 9-18, June 2007.

• P. Dawidek, M. McKusick, ``Porting the Solaris ZFS File System to the FreeBSD Operating System'', Usenix ;login: Magazine, 32, 3. pp 19-24, June 2007.

• M. McKusick, ``Disks from the Perspective of a File System'', Usenix ;login: Magazine, 31, 3. pp 18-19, June 2006.

• S. Graham, P. Kessler, M. McKusick, Retrospective on ``gprof: A Call Graph Execution Profiler'', Twenty Years of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 1979-1999, A Selection, Edited by Kathryn S. McKinley, 2004.

• M. McKusick ``Enhancements to the Fast Filesystem To Support Multi-Terabyte Storage Systems'', Proceedings of the Usenix BSDCon 2003 Conference, pp 79-90, September 2003.

• M. McKusick ``Running Fsck in the Background'', Proceedings of the Usenix BSDCon 2002 Conference, pp 55-64, February 2002.

• G. Ganger, M. McKusick, C. Soules, Y. Patt, ``Soft Updates: A Solution to the Metadata Update problem in File Systems'', ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 18, 2. pp 127-153, May 2000.

• M. Seltzer, G. Ganger, M. McKusick, K. Smith, C. Soules, C. Stein, ``Journaling versus Soft Updates: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems'', Proceedings of the San Diego Usenix Conference, pp 71-84, June 2000.

• M. McKusick, G. Ganger, ``Soft Updates: A Technique for Eliminating Most Synchronous Writes in the Fast Filesystem'', Proceedings of the Freenix Track at the 1999 Usenix Annual Technical Conference, pp 1-17, January 1999.

• M. McKusick ``Secondary Storage and Filesystems'', ACM Computing Surveys 28, 1. pp 217-219, March 1996.

• J. Pendry, M. McKusick, ``Union Mounts in 4.4BSD-Lite'', Proceedings of the New Orleans Usenix Conference, pp 25-33, January 1995.

• M. McKusick, ``Networking Comes to UNIX'', UNIX Review 12, 5. pp 40, May 1994.

• M. McKusick, ``What's New in 4.4BSD'', UNIX Review 12, 1. pp 51-56, January 1994.

• M. McKusick, ``Le prospettive di UNIX su PC'', Informatica Oggi and UNIX 13, 90. pp 34-35, Gennaio, Italy 1993.

• M. Seltzer, K. Bostic, M. McKusick, C. Staelin, ``An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System for UNIX'', Proceedings of the San Diego Usenix Conference, pp 201-218, January 1993.

• M. McKusick, ``UNIX Variants: BSD'', UNIX Review 10, 4. pp 46-47, April 1992.

• M. McKusick, M. Karels, K. Sklower, K. Fall, M. Teitelbaum, K. Bostic, ``Looking Ahead to 4.4BSD'', Bit Magazine, pp 10-19, September 1990.

• M. McKusick, M. Karels, K. Bostic, ``A Retrospective of 4.3BSD'', Bit Magazine, pp 4-9, September 1990.

• M. McKusick, M. Karels, K. Bostic, ``A Pageable Memory-Based Filesystem'', Proceedings of the Anaheim Usenix Conference, pp 137-144, June 1990. Reprinted in Proceedings of the United Kingdom UNIX Users Group Meeting, London, England, pp 109-115, July 1990.

• M. McKusick, M. Karels, K. Sklower, K. Fall, M. Teitelbaum, K. Bostic, ``Current Research by the Computer Systems Research Group of Berkeley'', Proceedings of the European UNIX Users Group Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, April 1989.

• M. McKusick, M. Karels, K. Bostic, ``The Release Engineering of 4.3BSD'', Proceedings of the New Orleans Usenix Workshop on Software Management, pp 95-100, April 1989.

• M. McKusick, M. Karels, ``Design of a General Purpose Memory Allocator for the 4.3BSD UNIX Kernel'', Proceedings of the San Francisco Usenix Conference, pp 295-304, June 1988.

• M. McKusick, M. Karels, ``Directions of UNIX at Berkeley'', Digest of Papers of the Thirty-second IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Compcon, San Francisco, pp. 196-199, February 23-27, 1987.

• M. McKusick, M. Karels, ``A New Virtual Memory Implementation for Berkeley UNIX'', Proceedings of the European UNIX Users Group Meeting, Manchester, England, pp. 451-460, September 1986.

• M. Karels, M. McKusick, ``Towards a Compatible Filesystem Interface'', Proceedings of the European UNIX Users Group Meeting, Manchester, England, pp. 481-496, September 1986.

• M. Karels, M. McKusick, ``Network Performance and Management with 4.3BSD and IP/TCP'', Proceedings of the Atlanta Usenix Conference, pp 182-188, June 1986.

• M. McKusick, M. Karels, J. Bloom, ``4.3 Berkeley Software Distribution'', Six volumes of documentation and tape of software, Computer Systems Research Group, 463 Evans Hall, Dept of EECS, Berkeley, CA 94720 April 1986.

• M. McKusick, ``UNIX Unleashed'', UNIX Reviews 3, 10. pp 28-33, October 1985.

• M. McKusick, M. Karels, S.Leffler, ``Performance Improvements and Functional Enhancements in 4.3BSD'' Proceedings of the Portland Usenix Conference, pp 519-531, June 1985.

• M. McKusick, ``A Berkeley Odyssey: Ten Years of BSD History'', UNIX Reviews 3, 1. pp 30-42, January 1985.

• M. McKusick ``Register Allocation and Data Conversion in Machine Independent Code Generators'', Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. November 1984.

• M. McKusick, W. Joy, S. Leffler, R. Fabry, ``A Fast File System for UNIX'', ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 2, 3. pp 181-197, August 1984.

• S. Leffler, M. Karels, M. McKusick, ``Measuring and Improving the Performance of 4.2BSD'', Proceedings of the Salt Lake City Usenix Conference, pp 237-252, June 1984.

• P. Aigrain, S. Graham, R. Henry, M. McKusick, E. Pelegri-Llopart, ``Experience with a Graham-Glanville Style Code Generator'', Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1984 Symposium on Compiler Construction, SIGPLAN Notices 19, 6, Montreal, Quebec. pp. 13-24. June 1984.

• M. McKusick, ``Using gprof to Tune the 4.2BSD Kernel'', Proceedings of the European UNIX Users Group Meeting, Nijmegen, Netherlands. April 1984.

• M. McKusick, T. Kowalski, ``Fsck - The UNIX File System Check Program'', 4.2BSD UNIX Programmer's Manual, Vol 2c, Document #66 August 1983.

• W. Joy, E. Cooper, R. Fabry, S. Leffler, M. McKusick, D. Mosher, ``4.2BSD System Manual'', 4.2BSD UNIX Programmer's Manual, Vol 2c, Document #68 August 1983.

• B. Kridle, M. McKusick, ``Performance Effects of Disk Subsystem Choices for VAX Systems Running 4.2BSD UNIX'', Proceedings of the Toronto Usenix Conference, July 1983.

• S. Graham, P. Kessler, M. McKusick, ``An Execution Profiler for Modular Programs'', Software - Practice and Experience, Vol 13. pp 671-685, 1983.

• S. Graham, P. Kessler, M. McKusick, ``gprof: A Call Graph Execution Profiler'', Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1982 Symposium on Compiler Construction, SIGPLAN Notices 17, 6, Boston, MA. June 1982.

• W. Joy, S. Graham, C. Haley, M. McKusick, P. Kessler, ``Berkeley Pascal User's Manual'', UNIX Programmer's Manual, Vol 2c, Document #48 October 1981.

• W. Joy, M. McKusick, ``Berkeley Pascal PX Implementation Notes, Version 2.0'', Computer Systems Research Group, U.C. Berkeley. January 1979.