Distributed file systems: focus on Andrew File System/Distributed File Service (AFS/DFS)

Author

Többicke, Rainer

Author_Institution

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

fYear

1994

fDate

1994

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

26

Abstract

Currently, there is a move away from huge, monolithic mainframe computers to smaller, individual workstations. This move requires that data and programs be shared between individual users on the same computer as well as across machines on a local area network (LAN) or even on a wide area network (WAN). A popular distributed file system is Transarc´s Andrew File System (AFS), the precursor of the Open Software Foundation´s (OSF) Distributed File Service (DFS), part of OSF´s Distributed Computing Environment. This paper compares AFS and DFS with other successful distributed file systems, discussing clients and file servers, data cache (cache consistency and authentication), file system topology, access rights, privileged programs, critical data, and authentication in long-running batch jobs

Keywords

buffer storage; distributed databases; file servers; message authentication; security of data; AFS/DFS; Andrew File System/Distributed File Service; Distributed Computing Environment; OSF; Open Software Foundation; Transarc; access rights; authentication; cache consistency; clients; critical data; data cache; distributed file system; file servers; file system topology; local area network; long-running batch jobs; privileged programs; wide area network; workstations; Authentication; Computer networks; Distributed computing; File servers; File systems; Local area networks; Permission; Topology; Wide area networks; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mass Storage Systems, 1994. 'Towards Distributed Storage and Data Management Systems.' First International Symposium. Proceedings., Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Annecy

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5580-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASS.1994.373021

Filename

373021