Network locality at the scale of processes
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Practical trade-offs for open interconnection
CSC '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM annual conference on Communications
NFS Dynamics Over Flow-Controlled Wide Area Networks
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
Not quite NFS, soft cache consistency for NFS
WTEC'94 Proceedings of the USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference on USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference
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The Sun Network File System (NFS) is a popular protocol to access files across a network [Sandberg 86]. NFS is implemented on machines as different as Personal Computers, and Cray-2 supercomputers. It uses Sun Remote Procedure Call [Sun 88] and External Data Representation [Sun 87] specifications, which can be used on a variety of transport protocols. The original design goal for NFS was to support small clusters of machines on local area networks. Thus a datagram protocol (UDP) was chosen to simplify transport.Using a connection-less transport protocol meant that nothing explicitly needed to be done to handle server or network failures. However, the use of NFS has expanded to cover much larger and more complicated networks than was ever anticipated. This has caused some NFS users to experience the problems of congestion and flow controI that transport protocols have been designed to address. This paper discucsses some alternatives for NFS transport protocols. Other issues such as inter-domain authentication, are not discussed here.