The Zebra striped network file system
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
File-system development with stackable layers
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) - Special issue on operating systems principles
Separating data and control transfer in distributed operating systems
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A scalable HTTP server: the NCSA prototype
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ONE-IP: techniques for hosting a service on a cluster of machines
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A case for intelligent disks (IDISKs)
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VISA: Netstation's virtual Internet SCSI adapter
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Locality-aware request distribution in cluster-based network servers
Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
The directory-based cache coherence protocol for the DASH multiprocessor
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Dhrystone: a synthetic systems programming benchmark
Communications of the ACM
Analysis of educational media server workloads
NOSSDAV '01 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Active Storage for Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia
VLDB '98 Proceedings of the 24rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Structure and Performance of the Direct Access File System
ATEC '02 Proceedings of the General Track of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Interposed request routing for scalable network storage
OSDI'00 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Symposium on Operating System Design & Implementation - Volume 4
On the performance of TCP splicing for URL-aware redirection
USITS'99 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 2
Active names: flexible location and transport of wide-area resources
USITS'99 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 2
Using smart clients to build scalable services
ATEC '97 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Efficient support for P-HTTP in cluster-based web servers
ATEC '99 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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Third-party transfer is a data transfer mechanism where the party initiating the transfer is neither the source nor the sink for the data. In this paper, we present a scheme for supporting third-party transfers on storage systems with network-attached disks (NADs), called SPIRAL 1. SPIRAL allows NADs to send data directly to clients without going through the server. It is transparent to clients and relies only on the linear block interface of the current disks (or the future iSCSI disks). SPIRAL requires no porting of file-system or application-level functionality to NADs and requires only simple modifications to server applications. To illustrate our approach, we implemented a prototype system on PCs running Linux. We present experimental results for NFS and HTTP on the prototype to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.