Serverless Network File Systems

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Serverless Network File Systems (1995)

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by Thomas E. Anderson , Michael D. Dahlin , Jeanna M. Neefe , David A. Patterson , Drew S. Roselli , Randolph Y. Wang

Venue:	ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Citations:	473 - 28 self

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Anderson95serverlessnetwork,
    author = {Thomas E. Anderson and Michael D. Dahlin and Jeanna M. Neefe and David A. Patterson and Drew S. Roselli and Randolph Y. Wang},
    title = {Serverless Network File Systems},
    booktitle = {ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS},
    year = {1995},
    pages = {109--126},
    publisher = {}
}

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for network file system design, serverless network file systems. While traditional network file systems rely on a central server machine, a serverless system utilizes workstations cooperating as peers to provide all file system services. Any machine in the system can store, cache, or control any block of data. Our approach uses this location independence, in combination with fast local area networks, to provide better performance and scalability than traditional file systems. Further, because any machine in the system can assume the responsibilities of a failed component, our serverless design also provides high availability via redundant data storage. To demonstrate our approach, we have implemented a prototype serverless network file system called xFS. Preliminary performance measurements suggest that our architecture achieves its goal of scalability. For instance, in a 32-node xFS system with 32 active clients, each client receives nearly as much read or write throughput as it would see if it were the only active client.

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serverless network file system active client fast local area network serverless system utilizes workstation file system service new paradigm preliminary performance measurement much read failed component central server machine location independence 32-node xfs system redundant data storage network file system design prototype serverless network file system serverless design traditional network file system high availability traditional file system

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