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Feasibility of a Serverless Distributed File System Deployed on an Existing Set of Desktop PCs (2000)
| Venue: | Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS |
| Citations: | 325 - 9 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Bolosky00feasibilityof,
author = {William J. Bolosky and John R. Douceur and David Ely and Marvin Theimer},
title = {Feasibility of a Serverless Distributed File System Deployed on an Existing Set of Desktop PCs},
booktitle = {Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS},
year = {2000}
}
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Abstract
We consider an architecture for a serverless distributed file system that does not assume mutual trust among the client computers. The system provides security, availability, and reliability by distributing multiple encrypted replicas of each file among the client machines. To assess the feasibility of deploying this system on an existing desktop infrastructure, we measure and analyze a large set of client machines in a commercial environment. In particular, we measure and report results on disk usage and content; file activity; and machine uptimes, lifetimes, and loads. We conclude that the measured desklop infrastructure would passably support our proposed system, providing availability on the order of one unfilled file request per user per thousand days. Keywords Serverless distributed file system architecture, personal computer
Keyphrases
desktop pc existing set serverless distributed file system deployed client machine multiple encrypted replica mutual trust commercial environment keywords serverless personal computer unfilled file request measured desklop infrastructure client computer large set disk usage file system desktop infrastructure machine uptime file activity file system architecture thousand day
