A comparison of two network-based file servers

  • Authors:
  • James G. Mitchell;Jeremy Dion

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SOSP '81 Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

This paper compares two working file servers in terms of their design goals, implementation issues, performance, and service experience. One server, the Xerox Distributed File System (XDFS) [10], was built at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; the other, the Cambridge File Server (CFS) [2, 3, 4], was built at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. Both file servers support concurrent random access to files over a network, and each offers an atomic transaction mechanism covering modifications to files.