A file provenance system
Abstract
A file provenance system supports the automatic collection and management of provenance i.e. the complete processing history of a data object. File system level provenance provides functionality unavailable in the existing provenance systems. In this paper, we discuss the design objectives for a flexible and efficient file provenance system and then propose the design of such a system, called FiPS. We design FiPS as a thin stackable file system for capturing provenance in a portable manner. FiPS can capture provenance at various degrees of granularity, can transform provenance records into secure information, and can direct the resulting provenance data to various persistent storage systems.
Keywords
data provenance, file system, general operating systems
Date of this Version
2013
DOI
10.1145/2435349.2435368
Comments
Proceeding
CODASPY '13 Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Data and application security and privacy
Pages 153-156