Design of a file server operating system

Author

Ho-Te Yeh ; Lih-Fang Lin ; Yen-Jen Oyang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

1

fYear

1993

fDate

19-21 Oct. 1993

Firstpage

157

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a file server operating system called Cypress. The design of Cypress is aimed at improving the file server response time through exploiting latest hardware advances. Cypress is distinctive in its caching and management strategies that take advantage of the large-capacity disk caches, tens to hundreds megabytes, and the powerful processors in contemporary file servers. If compared with general-purpose operating systems that are installed to perform file server operations, Cypress enjoys another advantage of featuring more predictable response time for real-time applications. Based on our measurement on our first version of implementation, the average hit response times of Cypress when running on a Intel 80486 CPU based PC with 32-megabyte memory are 1.38 ms and 1.39 ms for read and write requests, respectively.<>

Keywords

file organisation; file servers; network operating systems; operating systems (computers); Cypress; Intel 80486 CPU based PC; caching; file server operating system; management strategies; real-time applications; Computer science; Delay; Design engineering; Energy management; File servers; Hardware; Operating systems; Power system management; Read-write memory; Real time systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '93. Proceedings. Computer, Communication, Control and Power Engineering.1993 IEEE Region 10 Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1233-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1993.319952

Filename

319952