Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System

Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System (1988)

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by John H. Howard , Michael L. Kazar , Sherri G. Menees , A. Nichols , M. Satyanarayanan , Robert N. Sidebotham , Michael J. West

Venue:	ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
Citations:	760 - 40 self

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TITLE	Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	John H. Howard	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Carnegie Mellon University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Michael L. Kazar	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Carnegie Mellon University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Sherri G. Menees	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Carnegie Mellon University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	A. Nichols	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Carnegie Mellon University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	M. Satyanarayanan	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Carnegie Mellon University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Robert N. Sidebotham	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Carnegie Mellon University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Michael J. West	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Carnegie Mellon University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	The Andrew File System is a location-transparent distributed tile system that will eventually span more than 5000 workstations at Carnegie Mellon University. Large scale affects performance and complicates system operation. In this paper we present observations of a prototype implementation, motivate changes in the areas of cache validation, server process structure, name translation, and low-level storage representation, and quantitatively demonstrate Andrew’s ability to scale gracefully. We establish the importance of whole-file transfer and caching in Andrew by comparing its perform-ance with that of Sun Microsystem’s NFS tile system. We also show how the aggregation of files into volumes improves the operability of the system.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	1988	INFERENCE
VENUE	ACM Transactions on Computer Systems	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	JOURNAL	INFERENCE
PAGES	51--81	INFERENCE
VOLUME	6	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	12 found	ParsCit 1.0