Recovery in the Calypso file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Frangipani: a scalable distributed file system
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A Scalable Architecture for Clustered Network Attached Storage
MSS '03 Proceedings of the 20 th IEEE/11 th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSS'03)
SRDS '99 Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
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Based on implementation experience and measurements, this paper presents an evaluation of design alternatives to a cluster file system. The file system is targeted for IBM cluster systems, Scalable POWERparallel and AIX HACMP/600. We considered a shared disk approach where serialized, multiple instances of a single-system file system directly access file data as disk blocks, and a shared file system approach which is the conventional method of distributing file system function between a client and a server. We conclude that the shared disk approach suffers form the difficulties of metadata serialization, pooor write-sharing performance, and read throughput.