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This paper discusses distributed file access on large networks. It uses the Andrew file system, developed jointly by Carnegie Mellon University and IBM as an illustrative example of a large, unified file system. The paper concludes with thoughts on the requirements and design of geographically distributed file systems for very large networks comprising 106 nodes or more.
This work was supported by IBM and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA Order No. 4976, monitored by the air force Avionics Laboratory under Contact F33615-84-K-1520. The view and conclusions contained in this document are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of any of the sponsoring agencies of the US government.
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Spector, A.Z. (1986). Thoughts on Large Distributed File Systems. In: Hommel, G., Schindler, S. (eds) Informatik-Anwendungen — Trends und Perspektiven. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 126. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71388-0_43
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