Scale and performance in a distributed file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
UFO: a personal global file system based on user-level extensions to the operating system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Design and implementation of a portable and extensible FTP to NFS gateway
PPPJ '02/IRE '02 Proceedings of the inaugural conference on the Principles and Practice of programming, 2002 and Proceedings of the second workshop on Intermediate representation engineering for virtual machines, 2002
Extending the operating system at the user level: the Ufo global file system
ATEC '97 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Current methods of accessing services provided in the internet require users to know several interfaces. We show that integrating these services into the file naming spaces brings considerable benefits: users are able to use different services by a simple file access. This mechanism is general enough so that all applications can use the available services. Our idea is demonstrated by the implementation of a file server which handles ftp access transparently. This server was integrated into the regular file name space by using the NFS interface, thus avoiding the need to relink the kernel and ensuring portability.