Andrew: a distributed personal computing environment
Communications of the ACM - The MIT Press scientific computation series
Scale and performance in a distributed file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Integrating security in a large distributed system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Measurements of a distributed file system
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The Influence of Scale on Distributed File System Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Disconnected operation in the Coda 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
The ITC distributed file system: principles and design
Proceedings of the tenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A study of file sizes and functional lifetimes
SOSP '81 Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
An Extensible Type System for Wide-Area Information management
IWOOOS '95 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Object-Orientation in Operating Systems
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The evolution of the Andrew File System (AFS) into a wide-area distributed file system has encouraged collaboration and information dissemination on a much broader scale than ever before. In this paper, we examine AFS as a provider of wide-area file services to over 80 organizations around the world. We discuss usage characteristics of AFS derived from empirical measurements of the system, and from user responses to a questionnaire. Our observations indicate that AFS provides robust and efficient data access in its current configuration, thus confirming its viability as a design point for wide-area distributed file systems.