Marshall Kirk McKusick is a computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He was president of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 to 2004, and still serves on the board. He is on the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine. He helped design the original Berkeley Fast File System (FFS). He was also primarily responsible for creating the complementary features of filesystem snapshots and background fsck (file system check and repair).
Books Authored by Kirk McKusick
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Post date: 29 Oct 2004Collection of essays from the leaders of the Free Software / Open Source movement, explaining why the majority of the Internet's servers use Open Source technologies for everything from the operating system to Web serving and email.
Publisher:
O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Publication date: 13 Jan 1999
License: GNU General Public License
Document Type: Book
Publication date: 13 Jan 1999
License: GNU General Public License
Document Type: Book
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Post date: 29 Oct 2004Collection of essays from the leaders of the Free Software / Open Source movement, explaining why the majority of the Internet's servers use Open Source technologies for everything from the operating system to Web serving and email.
Publisher:
O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Publication date: 13 Jan 1999
License: GNU General Public License Document Type: Book
Publication date: 13 Jan 1999
License: GNU General Public License Document Type: Book
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