DistOS 2014W Lecture 12: Difference between revisions

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* "filesystem"
* "filesystem"
* every file and directory is a readers/writers lock
* every file and directory is a readers/writers lock
* only small files
* only small files 256K max
* only whole file operations
* only whole file operations



Revision as of 15:18, 13 February 2014

Discussion of Chubby

  • Coarse-grained locking service
  • developed at Google
  • no new algorithms, methods

Design

  • "filesystem"
  • every file and directory is a readers/writers lock
  • only small files 256K max
  • only whole file operations

API

use cases