The Zebra striped network file system

The Zebra striped network file system (1995)

by John H. Hartman , John K. Ousterhout

Venue:	ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
Citations:	256 - 5 self

Datum	Value	Source
TITLE	The Zebra striped network file system	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	John H. Hartman	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	John K. Ousterhout	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	Zebra is a network file system that increases throughput by striping file data across multiple servers. Rather than striping each file separately, Zebra forms all the new data from each client into a single stream, which it then stripes using an approach similar to a log-structured file system. This provides high performance for writes of small files as well as for reads and writes of large files. Zebra also writes parity information in each stripe in the style of RAID disk arrays; this increases storage costs slightly but allows the system to continue operation even while a single storage server is unavailable. A prototype implementation of Zebra, built in the Sprite operating system, provides 4-5 times the throughput of the standard Sprite file system or NFS for large files and a 15 % to 300 % improvement for writing small files. 1	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	1995	INFERENCE
VENUE	ACM Transactions on Computer Systems	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	29--43	INFERENCE
VOLUME	13	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	39 found	ParsCit 1.0