Accessing Files in an Internet: The Jade File System
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An empirical study of a wide-area distributed file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Infrastructure for Wide-Area Software Development
ICSE '96 Proceedings of the SCM-6 Workshop on System Configuration Management
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The Internet File System (IFS) extends the scope of file systems from LANs to the Internet, encouraging collaboration and information dissemination on a much broader scale. In addition, Internet resources (e.g., Web pages, Gopher Information, and Network News) become {\it files} in IFS, allowing file system APIs and existing tools and commands to be used to manipulate Internet resources just like conventional files. IFS is unique in that it introduces a logical layer between applications and operating systems, and integrates widely-used protocols like FTP, HTTP, GOPHER, NNTP, RSH in this layer. The system is transparent to applications and operating systems, and requires no modification of software nor change in management of Internet file servers. A prototype of IFS is currently running on Sun OS 4.1, Solaris, HP-UX, SVR4, SGI MIPS, and Linux