File access performance of diskless workstations
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A model of file server performance for a heterogeneous distributed system
SIGCOMM '86 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM conference on Communications architectures & protocols
VAXcluster: a closely-coupled distributed system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Open, Closed, and Mixed Networks of Queues with Different Classes of Customers
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
A trace-driven analysis of the UNIX 4.2 BSD file system
Proceedings of the tenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A caching file system for a programmer's workstation
Proceedings of the tenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The ITC distributed file system: principles and design
Proceedings of the tenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Some Extensions to Multiclass Queueing Network Analysis
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Modelling and Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems: Performance of Computer Systems
WFS a simple shared file system for a distributed environment
SOSP '79 Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The distributed V kernel and its performance for diskless workstations
SOSP '83 Proceedings of the ninth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Performance of a DECnet based disk block server
SIGMETRICS '84 Proceedings of the 1984 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Analysis of file I/O traces in commercial computing environments
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Performance Analysis of Client-Server Storage Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Analytical Performance Modeling of Hierarchical Mass Storage Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers
An approximate performance model of a Unitree mass storage system
MSS '95 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems
A virtual server queueing network method for component based performance modelling of metacomputing
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue: Semantic grid and knowledge grid: the next-generation web
A Performance Comparison of NFS and iSCSI for IP-Networked Storage
FAST '04 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
A performance comparison of NFS and iSCSI for IP-networked storage
FAST'04 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX conference on File and storage technologies
Research: Performance and traffic analysis of a network-based distributed system
Computer Communications
Study on the data flow balance in NFS server with iSCSI
ICA3PP'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing - Volume Part I
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The authors consider the performance of alternative mass-storage services for a client-server-style distributed system. Some qualitative arguments are presented on the ramifications of implementations of mass-storage services at various levels of the storagesemantics hierarchy. The authors concentrate, in particular, on contrasting disk and file services. The functionalities of disk and file services are distinguished by their primitive operations: individual disk-block access for the disk service, and individual file-block access for the file service. This difference results in different partitionings of the computation between the client and server, as well as different network communication requirements. To understand the ramifications of such differences between the services, the authors present performance estimates for basic disk and file services. Performance estimates for several design alternatives are presented.