Scale and performance in a distributed file system
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- DOI 10.1145/35037.35059
- OpenAlex ID W2005373714
- Type Article
- Language EN
- Published 01 Feb 1988
- Volume 6 (1)
- Pages 51–81
- Source ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
- Publisher Association for Computing Machinery
- FWCI 28.36
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Scale and performance in a distributed file system
Article 1988 EN
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-leve…
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7 authors| # | Author | Institutions | ORCID |
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| 1 | John Harrison Howard | Carnegie Mellon University (US) | |
| 2 | Michael Leon Kazar | Carnegie Mellon University (US) | — |
| 3 | Sherri G. Menees | Carnegie Mellon University (US) | — |
| 4 | David A. Nichols | Carnegie Mellon University (US) | — |
| 5 | Mahadev Satyanarayanan | Carnegie Mellon University (US) | |
| 6 | Robert N. Sidebotham | Carnegie Mellon University (US) | — |
| 7 | Michael J. West | Carnegie Mellon University (US) | — |
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