Performance evaluation of a prototype distributed NFS server

Author

Ávila, Rafael B. ; Navaux, Philippe O A ; Lombard, Pierre ; Lebre, Adrien ; Denneulin, Yves

Author_Institution

Inst. de Informatica, Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

fYear

2004

fDate

27-29 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

105

Abstract

A high-performance file system is normally a key point for large cluster installations, where hundreds or even thousands of nodes frequently need to manage large volumes of data. While most solutions usually make use of dedicated hardware and/or specific distribution and replication protocols, the NFSP (NFS Parallel) project aims at improving performance within a standard NFS client/server system. In this paper we investigate the possibilities of a replication model for the NFS server, which is based on Lasy Release Consistency (LRC). A prototype has been built upon the user-level NFSv2 server and a performance evaluation is carried out.

Keywords

client-server systems; network operating systems; parallel programming; performance evaluation; storage management; Lasy Release Consistency; NFS client-server system; parallel file system; performance evaluation; replication protocols; user-level NFSv2 server; Concurrent computing; Data storage systems; Distributed computing; File systems; Hardware; Identity management systems; Linux; Project management; Protocols; Prototypes; Lazy Release Consistency; NFS; Parallel file systems; parallel I/O;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, 2004. SBAC-PAD 2004. 16th Symposium on

ISSN

1550-6533

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2240-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBAC-PAD.2004.33

Filename

1364742