The LOCUS distributed system architecture
The LOCUS distributed system architecture
Scale and performance in a distributed file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Caching in the Sprite network file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
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
Cache coherence in distributed systems (network, file systems)
Cache coherence in distributed systems (network, file systems)
Technical summary of the second IEEE workshop on workstation operating systems
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Analysis of the Periodic Update Write Policy for Disk Cache
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Separating data and control transfer in distributed operating systems
ASPLOS VI Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Engineering server-driven consistency for large scale dynamic Web services
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Technical summary of the second IEEE workshop on workstation operating systems
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Evolving RPC for active storage
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Volume Leases for Consistency in Large-Scale Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Block-Level Security for Network-Attached Disks
FAST '03 Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Speculative execution in a distributed file system
Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Speculative execution in a distributed file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Hierarchical cache consistency in a WAN
USITS'99 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 2
Not quite NFS, soft cache consistency for NFS
WTEC'94 Proceedings of the USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference on USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference
USTC'94 Proceedings of the USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference on USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference - Volume 1
Panache: a parallel file system cache for global file access
FAST'10 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on File and storage technologies
Block-level security for network-attached disks
FAST'03 Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX conference on File and storage technologies
Improving concurrent write scheme in file server group
ICA3PP'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing
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File caching is essential to good performance in a distributed system, especially as processor speeds and memory sizes continue to improve rapidly while disk latencies do not. Stateless-server systems, such as NFS, cannot properly manage client file caches. Stateful systems, such as Sprite, can use explicit cache consistency protocols to improve both cache consistency and overall performance.By modifying NFS to use the Sprite cache consistency protocols, we isolate the effects of the consistency mechanism from the other features of Sprite. We find dramatic improvements on some, although not all, benchmarks, suggesting that an explicit cache consistency protocol is necessary for both correctness and good performance.