MG Baker, JH Hartman, MD Kupfer, KW Shirriff… - Proceedings of the …, 1991 - dl.acm.org
We analyzed the user-level file access patterns and caching behavior of the Sprite distributed file system. The first part of our analysis repeated a study done in 1985 of the …
B Liskov, S Ghemawat, R Gruber, P Johnson… - ACM SIGOPS …, 1991 - dl.acm.org
This paper describes the design and implementation of the Harp file system. Harp is a replicated Unix file system accessible via the VFS interface. It provides highly available and …
B Liskov - Proceedings of the tenth annual ACM symposium on …, 1991 - dl.acm.org
Synchronized clocks areinteresting because they can be used to improve performance of a distributed system by reducing communication. Since they have only recently become a …
DE Schmidt, CP Van Dyke, PJ Leach, P Garg… - US Patent …, 2007 - Google Patents
US7185359B2 - Authentication and authorization across autonomous network systems - Google Patents US7185359B2 - Authentication and authorization across autonomous …
Many distributed systems for wide-area networks can be built conveniently, and operate efficiently and correctly, using a weak consistency group communication mechanism. This …
DD Straube, AM Contorer, AS Miller, BS Raman… - US Patent …, 2007 - Google Patents
(51) Int. Cl. computer system. A source object of a source replica deter G06F 9/46(2006.01) mines that it has an urgent change to propagate through the (52) US Cl T19/313; 717/170 …
We present a precise specification of the primary-backup approach. Then, for a variety of different failure models we prove lower bounds on the degree of replication, failover time …
A Birrell, A Hisgen, C Jerian, T Mann, G Swart - 1993 - microsoft.com
Echo is an ambitious distributed file system. It was designed around a truly global name space. It uses a coherent caching algorithm. It is fault tolerant. And it is real—it was the …