DistOS 2019F 2019-09-23

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)?