DSM Review, NFS, AFS

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Readings

Questions

For the Protic paper, consider the following:

  1. What were the major problems addressed in DSM research following Kai Li's dissertation?
  2. Did these advances change the scope of environments and problems appropriate for DSM?
  3. Why aren't DSM systems commonly in use today?


For the NFS and AFS papers, consider these questions:

  1. What were the key design goals of NFS and AFS?
  2. How well did they achieve their goals?
  3. What are their limitations?
  4. How suitable are NFS and AFS in modern small networks? Enterprise networks? Internet-scale applications? Why?