NFS, AFS, Sprite FS

Readings

• Russel Sandberg et al., "Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem" (1985)
  This is the original NFS paper.

• John H. Howard et al., "Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System" (1988)
  This paper describes AFS and compares it to NFS.

• Nelson, Welch, & Ousterhout, "Caching in the Sprite Network File System" (1988)
  This paper compares Sprite to AFS and NFS.

Questions

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