DistOS 2021F 2021-09-21
Discussion Questions
Discussion questions for 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)?
- Could files be bigger than one computer could handle?