DistOS 2019F 2019-09-23
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Readings
LOCUS & NFS
- Bruce Walker et al., "The LOCUS Distributed Operating System." (1983)
- Russel Sandberg et al., "Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem" (1985)
Discussion Questions
Consider the following for both LOCUS & NFS
- What type of workloads was it designed for? How would the system appear to regular users?
- To what extent did it scale?
- What was their distribution strategy?
- Did any of their design choices clearly limit their scalability?
- How did their design choices affect semantics versus a single system (e.g., standard UNIX semantics)?