nfsp: A Distributed NFS Server for Clusters of Workstations (2002)
| Venue: | In Proc. of the 16th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS |
| Citations: | 8 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Lombard02nfsp:a,
author = {Pierre Lombard and Yves Denneulin},
title = {nfsp: A Distributed NFS Server for Clusters of Workstations},
booktitle = {In Proc. of the 16th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS},
year = {2002},
pages = {35}
}
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Abstract
As clusters of workstation get more and more popular (and as a consequence bigger and bigger), disks of these nodes are only used for the system and temporary files. Systems that offer an abstraction of the storage devices in a distributed manner for a cluster are few and far between. In this paper we introduce an extension to the implementation of NFS more suited to the context of clusters because it makes use of the disk space available on the nodes of the cluster instead of the one available on the server only. Our solution relies on the same principles as PVFS: a metaserver and I/O daemons. We present its architecture, the first implementation we did and early performance results. 1
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