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....to the file size. Read buffers are page aligned to enable page remapping in delivering data to the user process. In all cases an FFS file system is exported us ing soft updates [17] to eliminate synchronous disk I O for metadata updates. Our NFS nocopy implementation is based on NFS Version 3 [30]. It uses write behind for file data: writes are delayed or asynchronous depending on the size of the data written. On close, the NFS client flushes dirty buffers to server memory and waits for flushing to complete but does not commit them to server disk. NFS Version 3 opento close consistency ....

B. Pawlowski, C. Juszczak, P. Staubach, C. Smith, D. Lebel, and D. Hitz. NFS Version 3 Design and Implementation. In Proc. of USENIX Technical Conference, Boston, MA, June 1994.

....file systems, such as SPIFFI for Intel Paragon[1] and Bridge[2] can provide parallel I O capability for file accesses, even to an individual file. However, the predefined striping groups restrict the flexibility of system configuration and reconfiguration. Distributed file systems, such as NFS[3], AFS[4] 5] and Coda[6] have been widely used in networking world. But NFS can not provide a global file view between different users or programmers. AFS and Coda File System have the similar goals to provide file services for machines around the world, so they have done many works on weak ....

Brian Pawlowski, Chet Juszczak, Peter Staubach, Carl Smith, Diane Lebel and David Hitz, NFS Version 3 Design and Implementation, In Proceedings of Summer 1994 USENIX Conference, pp137-151, Boston

....metadata servers in existing distributed file systems. Directory subtree partitioning provides a natural way to partition the namespace among multiple servers in distributed systems. Each server manages one or more sub tree(s) also called file sets or volumes) of the hierarchy. LOCUS [15] NFS [13], AFS [9] Coda [16] and Sprite [11] partition the namespace using this technique. One advantage of directory subtree partitioning is that metadata for a file can generally be accessed by contacting relatively few metadata servers, as a particular metadata server will store some or all ....

B. Pawlowski, C. Juszczak, P. Staubach, C. Smith, D. Lebel, and D. Hitz. NFS version 3: Design and implementation. In Proceedings of the Summer 1994.

....it has comparable performance with NFS which is designed in kernel level in the case of one client and it is more scalable than traditional NFS services. Keywords: NFS, distributed file system, name cache, cluster of workstations, distributed NFS server 1. INTRODUCTION Network file system(NFS)[1] has been the leading distributed file system for workstations. It is widely used for global, secure, reliable, and high performance transparent access to information across variety of computer systems. The NFS is created as a system and architecture independent file system, i.e. it solved the ....

Brian Pawlowski, Chet Juszczak, Peter Staubach, Carl Smith, Diane Lebel and David Hitz, NFS Version 3 Design and Implementation, In Proceedings of Summer 1994 USENIX Conference, pp137-151, Boston

....in the system can provide identical NFS service to clients. When a client mounts one machine in the system, it can access the whole file space in the cluster. We introduce a distributed naming mechanism[1] to improve the system performance, scalability and availability. Many research results[2, 3] show that lookup is the most common NFS operation to reach an NFS server. A name and attribute cache, called NACache, with prefetching is presented in the paper. Due to the distributed metadata, NACache is quite effective to improve the server performance for metadata access. It is very important ....

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....directly. Due to the difference of the focus of distributed file system, parallel file systems and cluster file systems, some novel design idea and method are introduced into cluster file systems. Distributed file systems focus on the distributed characteristic of files and directories, such as NFS[1], AFS[2]0 and Coda0. They should bear the network latency and indetermination, such as the disconnection operation in Coda. Parallel file systems focus on the performance of parallel I O, such as SPIFFI for Intel Paragon[5] and Bridge[6] They distribute a single file on different storage to ....

Brian Pawlowski, Chet Juszczak, Peter Staubach, Carl Smith, Diane Lebel and David Hitz, NFS Version 3 Design and Implementation, In Proceedings of Summer 1994 USENIX Conference, pp137-151, Boston

....remote file operation latency. A prototype system built on top of the Coda file system, Data Staging on Coda (DS CODA) has been developed and its success has been demonstrated in preliminary experiments. In this project, we implemented Data Staging on the widely deployed Sun Network File System [15] (DS NFS) and evaluated its performance. Although there are significant di#erences in the design of Coda and NFS, DS NFS is able to show an improvement of read performance by up to 42.8 based on the synthetic PostMark benchmark [8] In addition, we show that delaying writes in DS NFS has little ....

....will generate as many lookup calls as there are files in the directory. The newly introduced READDIRPLUS in NFSv3, which returns the attributes of all files in the directory to the client in addition to the directory information has been shown to be able to reduce the lookup tra#c significantly [15]. However, most current implementations of NFSv3 client do not support READDIRPLUS and have very limited caching for the results of lookup calls. Finally, in the current implementation of Linux NFSv3 client, a getattr call is made before each read call, even when the file is cached, to ensure that ....

Pawlowski, B., Juszczak, C., Staubach, P., Smith, C., Lebel, D., and Hitz, D. The NFS Version 3 Design and Implementation. USENIX Summer 1994.

....returns the IP address to the application, which can then send the message. This scheme avoids the danger of having a single point of failure in a centralized scheme, but there is the potential for bottlenecks, with a few very often accessed points in the hierarchy. The Network File System (NFS) [23] allows clients to transparently access les on remote servers. The NFS protocol provides a le system model to which clients and servers map local le system actions. The NFS protocol is stateless. The server does not maintain any information about requests once they have been serviced. There is ....

....higher degree of exibility than swapping objects, which will, in many cases, be larger than the size of a page. The choice between swapping objects and pages presents tradeo s (e.g. simplicity vs. exibility) similar in many ways to the tradeo s between le and block caching in AFS [11] and NFS [23]. Overall, the limitations just described do not prevent the emulator from serving its intended purpose. System services do not tend to bombard the network with messages on the scale required to cause communication to fail, and the name reso62 lution service is robust enough to handle the ....

Brian Pawloski, Chet Juszczak, Peter Staubach, Carl Smith, Diane Lebel, and David Hitz. NFS version 3 design and implementation. In Proc. 1994.

....secure communications does not require the intervention of network administrators, or the involvement of a certi cation authority, such as Verisign. 1. 1 Relation of SFS to NFS In order to ease its adoption and ensure portability, SFS was built on top of the widely used Network File System (NFS)[24]. An SFS client requires the presence of an NFS client, to which it pretends to be an NFS server. Likewise, an SFS server requires the presence of an NFS server, to which it acts as an NFS client. On the client 9 side, the SFS client receives the local NFS client s requests and sends them ....

....him the desired level of access on that resource. 2.2 Filesystem Access Control Mechanisms Access Control Lists (ACLs) are widely used for controlling access to lesystem objects. However, the capabilities of ACL based access control vary widely from lesystem to lesystem. 2.2. 1 NFS NFS [24] currently lacks support for Access Control Lists. Some vendors, such as Solaris and Irix, have created ancillary protocols to NFS to extend the server s ACL mechanism across the network. Even though the server still interprets the ACL and has nal control over access to a le system object, the ....

B. Pawlowski, C. Juszczak, P. Staubach, C. Smith, D. Lebel, and D. Hitz, NFS version 3 design and implementation, 1994.

....When we converted the Amd package [9, 12] to use autotools, the code size was reduced by more than one third and the code became clearer and easier to maintain. Fixing bugs and adding new features became easier and faster, even major features that affected significant portions of the code: NFSv3 [8] support, Autofs [1] support, and a run time automounter configuration file etc amd.conf. New features that we added immediately worked on many supported systems and bugs fixes did not introduce additional bugs. 3 Autotooling The basic idea behind Autoconf is to determine a feature s ....

....First, the autotooled version was more than onethird smaller. Second, the autotooling process allowed us to add new features to Amd and port it to new systems with minimal effort. For the first 12 months after its initial autotooled release, Am utils grew by 70 , adding major features such NFSv3 [8] support, Autofs [1] support, a run time automounter configuration file etc amd.conf, and offering dozens of new ports. This growth in size did not complicate the code much, as can be seen from the small standard deviation for Amutils in Figure 3. The growth rate has reduced over the past two ....

B. Pawlowski, C. Juszczak, P. Staubach, C. Smith, D. Lebel, and D. Hitz. NFS version 3 design and implementation. In Proceedings of the Summer USENIX Technical Conference, pages 137--52, June 1994.

....le system module. It allows higher level operating system modules to perform operations on vnodes. The vnode interface was invented by Sun Microsystems to facilitate the coexistence of multiple le systems [Kleiman86] speci cally the local le system that manages disk storage and the NFS [Sun89, Pawlowski94] remote le system. When a vnode represents storage (such as a le or directory) it does not expose what type of physical le system implements the storage. This virtual le system concept has proven very useful, and nearly every version of Unix includes some version of vnodes and a vnode ....

....File System Examples of such le systems include The Berkeley Fast File System (FFS) McKusick84] for physical disks. Sun Microsystem s UFS [LoVerso91] an optimized version of FFS. The LFS log structured le system, optimized for sequential writes [Rosenblum91] on hard disks. NFS [Sandberg85, Pawlowski94], that uses the network as its le system device. The High Sierra le system (HSFS, ISO9660) for CD ROMs [Kao89] The FAT based le system originally developed for DOS [Tanenbaum92] and later adapted for Unix machines to access a oppy as a native PC based le system (PCFS) Forin94] ....

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B. Pawlowski, C. Juszczak, P. Staubach, C. Smith, D. Lebel, and D. Hitz. NFS Version 3 Design and Implementation. USENIX Conference Proceedings (Boston, Massachusetts), pages 137-52. USENIX, 6-10 June 1994.

....system calls on the client because the latter can result in a different mix of actual NFS server operations that are executed. Unfortunately, the only available NHFSSTONE benchmark for Linux [8] supports only NFSv2, whereas we wanted a benchmark that could run on both NFSv2 and NFSv3 servers [2, 12, 17, 22]. Third, the SFS 2.0 benchmark, a successor to LADDIS [24] is a commercial benchmark that provides an industry standardized performance evaluation of NFS servers (both NFSv2 and NFSv3) but we did not have access to this benchmark [14, 23] Nevertheless, we believe that the benchmarks we did ....

....squashing, and cloaking into the Linux kernel. We achieved good performance while offering flexible features that were not available before (e.g. cloaking) not even in Unfsd. Today s NFS servers include a feature to suppress access from UID 0 or GID 0, also known as root squashing [2, 12, 17, 22]. Linux also includes a feature called all squashing that maps all incoming UIDs or GIDs to a single number. As we saw in the design section, our work is a superset of these forms of UID or GID squashing (root or all) With file cloaking, we support a superset of masking features that includes the ....

B. Pawlowski, C. Juszczak, P. Staubach, C. Smith, D. Lebel, and D. Hitz. NFS version 3 design and implementation. In Proceedings of the Summer USENIX Technical Conference, pages 137--52, June 1994.

....to the file size. Read bu#ers are page aligned to enable page remapping in delivering data to the user process. In all cases an FFS file system is exported using soft updates [17] to eliminate synchronous disk I O for metadata updates. Our NFS nocopy implementation is based on NFS Version 3 [30]. It uses write behind for file data: writes are delayed or asynchronous depending on the size of the data written. On close, the NFS client flushes dirty bu#ers to server memory and waits for flushing to complete but does not commit them to server disk. NFS Version 3 opento close consistency ....

B. Pawlowski, C. Juszczak, P. Staubach, C. Smith, D. Lebel, and D. Hitz. NFS Version 3 Design and Implementation. In Proc. of USENIX Technical Conference, Boston, MA, June 1994.

....for five years, is currently used by about 1,500 users from 24 countries, and offers access to about 70 engineering applications. The described virtual file system is built on top of an existing, de facto standard that works across heterogeneous platforms the Network File System (NFS [14]) The system works by way of software proxies that broker transactions between standard NFS clients and servers; the proxies are dynamically configured and controlled by computational grid middleware. This mechanism differs from related work in filestaging techniques (e.g. Globus [4] and PBS [6, ....

....system load. Giving users direct access to resources via permanent user accounts makes it difficult to implement and enforce such policies. ffl Data and applications are typically accessible to users via a local file system, which is often implicitly tied to a single administrative domain. NFS [14], for example, assumes that a given user has the same identity (e.g. the Unix uid) on all machines, making it difficult to scale it across administrative boundaries. Wide area file systems do exist (e.g. AFS [13, 18] but are not commonly available in standard machine configurations, and hence ....

B. Pawlowski, C. Juszczak, P. Staubach, C. Smith, D. Lebel, and D. Hitz. NFS version 3 design and implementation. In Proceedings of the USENIX Summer Technical Conference, 1994.

....system load. Giving users direct access to resources via permanent user accounts makes it difficult to implement and enforce such policies. ffl Data and applications are typically accessible to users via a local file system, which is often implicitly tied to a single administrative domain. NFS [13], for example, assumes that a given user has the same identity (e.g. the Unix uid) on all machines, making it difficult to scale it across administrative boundaries. Wide area file systems (e.g. AFS [12, 15] do exist, but they are not commonly deployed. In order to deliver computing as a ....

....to home directories on Unix file servers, except for the fact that all files and directories are owned by a single Unix level account. ffl The third option is to reuse existing implicit block transfer capabilities by building on a standard and widely used file system protocol such as NFS [13]. There are three ways to accomplish this goal. One is to enhance the NFS client and or server code to work in a computational grid environment. This would require kernel level changes to each version of every operating system on any platform within the grid. The second option is to use standard ....

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