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NFS Version 3 Design and Implementation

Author

Brian Pawlowski, Chet Jusczak, Peter staubach, Carl Smith, Diane Lebel, David Hitz

Entry type

conference

Abstract

This paper describes a new version of the Network File System (NFS) that supports access to files larger than 4GB and increases sequential write throughput seven fold when compared to unaccelerated NFS Version 2. NFS Version 3 maintains the stateless server design and simple crash recovery of NFS Version 2, and the philosophy of building a distributed file service from cooperating protocols. We describe the protocol and its implementation, and provide initial performance measurements. We then describe the implementation effort. Finally, we contrast this work with other distributed file systems and discuss future revisions of NFS.

Date

1994 – 6 – 9

URL

http://people.cs.pitt.edu/~manas/courses/2510/nfs3.pdf

Key alpha

Pawlowski

Publication Date

1994-06-09

Location

A hard-copy of this is in the Papers Cabinet

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