Scale and performance in a distributed file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Caching in the Sprite network file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Leases: an efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency
SOSP '89 Proceedings of the twelfth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Authentication in distributed systems: theory and practice
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Measurements of a distributed file system
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Disconnected operation in the Coda file system
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Experience with transactions in QuickSilver
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Non-volatile memory for fast, reliable file systems
ASPLOS V Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
LOCUS a network transparent, high reliability distributed system
SOSP '81 Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The LOCUS distributed operating system
SOSP '83 Proceedings of the ninth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Exploiting weak connectivity for mobile file access
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Petal: distributed virtual disks
Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Achieving Strong Consistency in a Distributed File System
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Frangipani: a scalable distributed file system
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Separating key management from file system security
Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A low-bandwidth network file system
SOSP '01 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Scalable Session Locking for a Distributed File System
Cluster Computing
Shark: scaling file servers via cooperative caching
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
Generalized file system dependencies
Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems
OSDI '06 Proceedings of the 7th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Segment-based recovery: write-ahead logging revisited
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
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Extensive caching is a key feature of the Echo distributed file system. Echo client machines maintain coherent caches of file and directory data and properties, with write-behind (delayed write-back) of all cached information. Echo specifies ordering constraints on this write-behind, enabling applications to store and maintain consistent data structures in the file system even when crashes or network faults prevent some writes from being completed. In this paper we describe the Echo cache's coherence and ordering semantics, show how they can improve the performance and consistency of applications, explain how they are implemented. We also discuss the general problem of reliably notifying applications and users when write-behind is lost; we addressed this problem as part of the Echo design, but did not find a fully satisfactory solution.