High performance NFS: facts and fictions

ABSTRACT

Lately you may have begun hearing about High Performance NFS offerings and standards. But we all "know" NFS is not scalable. So what does High Performance NFS mean? FPGA implementation of parts of the file system? Really big caches? RDMA embedded in the RPC mechanism? Multiple filers exporting the same files? Delegations for file layout enabling clients to directly access storage devices/servers in parallel? This panel will address this question with enough opinions to ensure that attendees learn much more about the alternatives and strategies without being able to say it is just one thing. Yet.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.3 File Systems Management

          Nouns: NFS

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.2 Storage Management
          Subjects: Distributed memories
      D.4.3 File Systems Management
          Subjects: Distributed file systems
      D.4.7 Organization and Design
          Subjects: Distributed systems

General Terms:
Design, Management