Multi-resident AFS: An Adventure in Mass Storage

Authors: 

Jonathan S. Goldick, Kathy Benninger, Christopher Kirby, Christopher Maher, and Bill Zumach, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Abstract: 

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has been working to integrate distributed file system technology with hierarchical mass storage. We produced a system utilizing the Andrew File System that can be interfaced to many mass storage systems. We retained the semantics of AFS and compatibilitywith standard clients and servers. The architecture has a logical separation between the facility that provides the user interface and access semantics and the management of the storage systems that contain user data. Support for file level replication is provided for high availability to data in a fashion that is transparent to users. This system is called Multi-Resident AFS.

BibTeX
@inproceedings {260455,
author = {Jonathan S. Goldick and Kathy Benninger and Christopher Kirby and Christopher Maher and Bill Zumach},
title = {Multi-resident {AFS}: An Adventure in Mass Storage},
booktitle = {USENIX 1995 Technical Conference (USENIX 1995 Technical Conference)},
year = {1995},
address = {New Orleans, LA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-1995-technical-conference/multi-resident-afs-adventure-mass-storage},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jan
}
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Paper: 
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/neworl/full_papers/zumach.ps