International Business Machines Corporation

Auspex Systems, Inc.

John S Coviello

Palmer W Agnew

Lakshman Narayanaswamy

Anne S Kellerman

Srinivas Pothapragada

Bhimsen Bhanjois

Amod Bodas

Linda S Green

An apparatus and a method manage data stored on one or more data storage devices using an adaptive file system by characterizing the data on the data storage devices managed by the file system; and tuning the file system by selecting one or more options to configure a kernel during boot-up and an operating system during mount time.

Characterization of data access using file system

A method of transferring information between a host data processing system and the private storage media of an interactive text processing system, and the reverse, under control of the host while the text processing system is emulating a host terminal. All information intended to be written to or read from the text processor's diskette and commands therefor, are marked with a unique indicator that is recognized by emulation software and utilized thereby to steer said commands and information to a file transfer program and away from the emulated terminal screen. This is done in a manner that is transparent to the host which handles transferred information as though it were being written to or returned from the emulated screen.

Method for controlling the file transfer capability of an interactive

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

John S Coviello