TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of design alternatives for a cluster file system
AU - Devarakonda, Murthy
AU - Mohindra, Ajay
AU - Simoneaux, Jill
AU - Tetzlaff, William H.
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We thank the anonymous referees, in particular, our shepherd Peter Honeyman, for helping to improve the paper significantly. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the rest of the Calypso team: Bill Kish, Ananda Rao Ladi, Andy Zlotek, Edie Gunter, and Arup Mukherjee. Comments and input from Bob Curran, Wayne Zakaras, Donavon Johnson, and Damon Permezel during the Calypso project have been invaluable.
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PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - 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 POWER parallel and AIX HACMP/6000. 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 from the difficulties of metadata serialization, poor write-sharing performance, and read throughput.
AB - 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 POWER parallel and AIX HACMP/6000. 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 from the difficulties of metadata serialization, poor write-sharing performance, and read throughput.
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T3 - USENIX 1995 Technical Conference Proceedings
BT - USENIX 1995 Technical Conference Proceedings
PB - USENIX Association
T2 - USENIX 1995 Technical Conference
Y2 - 16 January 1995 through 20 January 1995
ER -