Scalable, secure, and highly available distributed file access

1990/05/01 by Mahadev Satyanarayanan, M. Satyanarayanan · 276 citations
Computer Science · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Coda #Computer science #Distributed computing #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #File sharing #File system #Operating system #SSH File Transfer Protocol #Scalability #Security and Verification in Computing #Self-certifying File System #Software #The Internet #Unix #Virtual file system #Workstation

paper · doi:10.1109/2.53351

published in Computer 23(5), 9-18 (IEEE Computer Society)

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Abstract

A summary of and historical perspective on work done to implement easy-to-share distributed file systems based on the Unix model are presented. Andrew and Coda are distributed Unix file systems that embody many of the recent advances in solving the problem of data sharing in large, physically dispersed workstation environments. The Andrew architecture is presented, the scalability and security of the system are discussed. The Coda system is examined, with emphasis on its high availability.>

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