A file storage implementation for very large distributed systems

Author

Alonso, Rafael ; Barbara, Daniel ; Cova, Luis L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

27-29 Sep 1989

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The issues that must be considered in structuring file storage for very large distributed systems are discussed. The authors describe the distributed file system they are developing, which is called FACE (file system for ACE). The first prototype of FACE consists of a series of enhancements to Sun´s network file system (NFS) in order to add a stashing capability. User processes interact with the system call interface to perform file and stashing operations. These operations may be invoked directly by user processes or by the FACE user-level routines. The FACE user-level routines implement diverse facilities to allow users to select the files that will be stashed (or dropped from the stash). The first FACE prototype is being implemented on a Sun 3/50 computer running Suri´s Unix 4.2 release 3.3

Keywords

file organisation; multiprocessing systems; storage allocation; ACE; FACE prototype; FACE user-level routines; Sun 3/50 computer; Unix; distributed file system; diverse facilities; file storage implementation; network file system; stashing capability; stashing operations; system call interface; user processes; very large distributed systems; Computer architecture; Computer science; Degradation; Distributed databases; File servers; Information retrieval; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Routing; Waste materials;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Workstation Operating Systems, 1989., Proceedings of the Second Workshop on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WWOS.1989.109258

Filename

109258