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An Architecture for Opportunistic Network File System Services

by Dutch T Meyer
"... Disk drives are widely cited as a critical bottleneck in systems performance. This is particularly true of notebook computers, which are significantly constrained in their power consumption and their limited size. Bound by these physical constraints we can expect disk drives to become an increasingl ..."
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an opportunity for fast reliable networking to supplant some traditionally local file system services and operations. In this work, we show how network connectivity, even when sporadic, can lend itself to optimistic services providing significant performance benefits. We detail a simple kernel-mode event forking

Serverless Network File Systems

by Thomas E. Anderson, Michael D. Dahlin, Jeanna M. Neefe, David A. Patterson, Drew S. Roselli, Randolph Y. Wang - ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS , 1995
"... In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for network file system design, serverless network file systems. While traditional network file systems rely on a central server machine, a serverless system utilizes workstations cooperating as peers to provide all file system services. Any machine in the sy ..."
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In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for network file system design, serverless network file systems. While traditional network file systems rely on a central server machine, a serverless system utilizes workstations cooperating as peers to provide all file system services. Any machine

The Google File System

by Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, Shun-tak Leung - ACM SIGOPS OPERATING SYSTEMS REVIEW , 2003
"... We have designed and implemented the Google File System, a scalable distributed file system for large distributed data-intensive applications. It provides fault tolerance while running on inexpensive commodity hardware, and it delivers high aggregate performance to a large number of clients. While s ..."
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traditional choices and explore radically different design points. The file system has successfully met our storage needs. It is widely deployed within Google as the storage platform for the generation and processing of data used by our service as well as research and development efforts that require large

Jiffy: A Lightweight Jini File System Service

by Edward Hogan, Julio López
"... Jiffy is a distributed file system implemented to take advantage of Sun Microsystems’s Jini Technology. This paper contains quantitative results gathered from an experiment that compared the performance of Jiffy against the Andrew File System. The experiment compared the two file systems using sever ..."
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Jiffy is a distributed file system implemented to take advantage of Sun Microsystems’s Jini Technology. This paper contains quantitative results gathered from an experiment that compared the performance of Jiffy against the Andrew File System. The experiment compared the two file systems using

DataMods: Programmable File System Services

by Noah Watkins , Carlos Maltzahn , Scott Brandt , Adam Manzanares
"... Abstract-As applications become more complex, and the level of concurrency in systems continue to rise, developers are struggling to scale complex data models on top of a traditional byte stream interface. Middleware tailored for specific data models is a common approach to dealing with these chall ..."
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with these challenges, but middleware commonly reproduces scalable services already present in many distributed file systems. We present DataMods, an abstraction over existing services found in large-scale storage systems that allows middleware to take advantage of existing, highly tuned services. Specifically, Data

Secure File System Services for Web 2.0 Applications

by Francis Hsu, Hao Chen
"... We present a design for a file system that provides a secure file storage service for Web 2.0 applications. Currently, each Web application stores its own user data. This not only burdens the applications with storing, managing, and securing user data but also deprives users from controlling their o ..."
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We present a design for a file system that provides a secure file storage service for Web 2.0 applications. Currently, each Web application stores its own user data. This not only burdens the applications with storing, managing, and securing user data but also deprives users from controlling

Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems

by Jennifer G. Steiner, Clifford Neuman, Jeffrey I. Schiller - IN USENIX CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS , 1988
"... In an open network computing environment, a workstation cannot be trusted to identify its users correctly to network services. Kerberos provides an alternative approach whereby a trusted third-party authentication service is used to verify users’ identities. This paper gives an overview of the Kerb ..."
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, and administrator are described. Finally, the role of Kerberos in the larger Athena picture is given, along with a list of applications that presently use Kerberos for user authentication. We describe the addition of Kerberos authentication to the Sun Network File System as a case study for integrating Kerberos

A Fast File System for UNIX

by Marshall Kirk Mckusick, William N. Joy, Samuel J. Leffler, Robert S. Fabry - ACM Transactions on Computer Systems , 1984
"... A reimplementation of the UNIX file system is described. The reimplementation provides substantially higher throughput rates by using more flexible allocation policies that allow better locality of reference and can be adapted to a wide range of peripheral and processor characteristics. The new file ..."
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A reimplementation of the UNIX file system is described. The reimplementation provides substantially higher throughput rates by using more flexible allocation policies that allow better locality of reference and can be adapted to a wide range of peripheral and processor characteristics. The new

Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System

by James J. Kistler, M. Satyanarayanan - ACM Transactions on Computer Systems , 1992
"... Disconnected operation is a mode of operation that enables a client to continue accessing critical data during temporary failures of a shared data repository. An important, though not exclusive, application of disconnected operation is in supporting portable computers. In this paper, we show that di ..."
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that disconnected operation is feasible, efficient and usable by describing its design and implementation in the Coda File System. The central idea behind our work is that caching of data, now widely used for performance, can also be exploited to improve availability.

The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System

by Mendel Rosenblum, John K. Ousterhout - ACM Transactions on Computer Systems , 1992
"... This paper presents a new technique for disk storage management called a log-structured file system. A logstructured file system writes all modifications to disk sequentially in a log-like structure, thereby speeding up both file writing and crash recovery. The log is the only structure on disk; it ..."
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This paper presents a new technique for disk storage management called a log-structured file system. A logstructured file system writes all modifications to disk sequentially in a log-like structure, thereby speeding up both file writing and crash recovery. The log is the only structure on disk
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