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| ===Topics=== | |||
| * Scalability? | |||
| * Multics? | |||
| * Distributed Filesystems | |||
| ** where are files stored? | |||
| ** how are they accessed? | |||
| ** locking? | |||
| ** access control? | |||
| ** Systems: Farsite, Oceanstore, LOCUS, Sprite, NFS, AFS, Plan 9 | |||
| * RPC | |||
| * Caching | |||
| * Process models, including process migration | |||
| * Trusted vs. untrusted systems, components | |||
| * Evolution of goals of distributed systems | |||
| * Dream vs. reality | |||
| * Sharing? | |||
| * synchronous vs. async - shared state | |||
| * durability of storage/reliability of service | |||
| * security - what threat model? | |||
| * client/server vs. peer to peer - where is computation & storage?  | |||
| ===Questions=== | |||
| * How did AFS and Oceanstore address the problem of (concurrent access, access control, server failure, ...?  What were the advantages and disadvantages to their solutions?  (Alternately, give a list of systems, choose 2 or 3.) | |||
Latest revision as of 15:20, 15 October 2018
Test 1 Review
Topics
- Scalability?
- Multics?
- Distributed Filesystems
- where are files stored?
- how are they accessed?
- locking?
- access control?
- Systems: Farsite, Oceanstore, LOCUS, Sprite, NFS, AFS, Plan 9
 
- RPC
- Caching
- Process models, including process migration
- Trusted vs. untrusted systems, components
- Evolution of goals of distributed systems
- Dream vs. reality
- Sharing?
- synchronous vs. async - shared state
- durability of storage/reliability of service
- security - what threat model?
- client/server vs. peer to peer - where is computation & storage?
Questions
- How did AFS and Oceanstore address the problem of (concurrent access, access control, server failure, ...? What were the advantages and disadvantages to their solutions? (Alternately, give a list of systems, choose 2 or 3.)