An overview of the Internet File System

Author

Rao, Herman Chung-hwa ; Chen, Ming-Feng ; Wang, Feng-Jian

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Florham Park, NJ, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

11-15 Aug 1997

Firstpage

474

Lastpage

477

Abstract

The Internet File System (IFS) extends the scope of file systems from LANs to the Internet, encouraging collaboration and information dissemination on a much broader scale. In addition, Internet resources (e.g. Web pages, Gopher Information, and Network News) become files in IFS, allowing file system APIs and existing tools and commands to be used to manipulate Internet resources just like conventional files. IFS is unique in that it introduces a logical layer between applications and operating systems, and integrates widely-used protocols like FTP, HTTP, GOPHER, NNTP, RSH in this layer. The system is transparent to applications and operating systems, and requires no modification of software nor change in management of Internet file servers. A prototype of IFS is currently running on Sun OS 4.1, Solaris, HP-UX, SVR4, SGI MIPS, and Linux

Keywords

Internet; file servers; groupware; information dissemination; network operating systems; protocols; APIs; HP-UX; Internet File System; Internet file servers; Internet resources; Linux; SGI MIPS; SVR4; Solaris; Sun OS 4.1; applications; collaboration; commands; information dissemination; operating systems; protocols; tools; Application software; Collaboration; File servers; File systems; IP networks; Internet; Operating systems; Protocols; Software prototyping; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1997. COMPSAC '97. Proceedings., The Twenty-First Annual International

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8105-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1997.625047

Filename

625047