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Volume 14 , Issue 1 (February 1996) table of contents
Special issue on operating system principles

Pages: 41 - 79

Year of Publication: 1996

ISSN:0734-2071

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Thomas E. Anderson	Univ. of California, Berkeley
Michael D. Dahlin	Univ. of California, Berkeley
Jeanna M. Neefe	Univ. of California, Berkeley
David A. Patterson	Univ. of California, Berkeley
Drew S. Roselli	Univ. of California, Berkeley
Randolph Y. Wang	Univ. of California, Berkeley

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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We propose a new paradigm for network file system design: serverless network file systems. While traditional network file systems rely on a central server machine, a serverless system utilizes workstations cooperating as peers to provide all file system services. Any machine in the system can store, cache, or control any block of data. Our approach uses this location independence, in combination with fast local area networks, to provide better performance and scalability than traditional file systems. Furthermore, because any machine in the system can assume the responsibilities of a failed component, our serverless design also provides high availability via redundatn data storage. To demonstrate our approach, we have implemented a prototype serverless network file system called xFS. Preliminary performance measurements suggest that our architecture achieves its goal of scalability. For instance, in a 32-node xFS system with 32 active clients, each client receives nearly as much read or write throughput as it would see if it were the only active client.

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