A Usage Profile and Evaluation of a Wide-Area Distributed File System

Abstract

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 characteristic 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

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA273590

Entities

People

  • Mahadev Satyanarayanan
  • Mirjana Spasojevic

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Corporations
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Directories
  • Instrumentation
  • Networks
  • Reliability
  • Servers (Computer Hardware)
  • Statistics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • User Interface
  • Wide Area Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.