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- From: Ken Birman <ken@cs.cornell.EDU>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.research
- Subject: Re: Summary: File Replication
- Date: 30 Aug 1992 06:47:08 GMT
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
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- In article <17n0dvINN7b0@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> vander@flab.fujitsu.co.jp (Mike van der Velden) writes:
- >Earlier this month, I wrote:
- >
- >> Does anyone have or know of some documentation about file replication,
- >> especially within a Unix-like environment?
- >>
- >> I will summarize to the net if there is interest.
- >>
- >> Thanks in advance for your time.
- >
- >And now, thr promised summary. Thanks to the following people for
- >taking the time to respond.
-
- ... I was out of town and missed this posting. A Cornell graduate
- student, Alex Siegel, developed a software replication scheme that
- emulates NFS using Isis. He called his system Deceit and his thesis
- is available by public FTP access to ftp.cs.cornell.edu; the file
- is called pub/TR1266.ps.Z and can be pulled over by anonymous FTP.
-
- Deceit is fully NFS compatible -- it supports the normal NFS mount
- and file access protocols -- but replicates files to varying degrees
- under user control. Performance is close to that of a normal NFS
- because caching hides most of the overhead introduced by Isis.
- (When caching is disabled, reads take no longer than for NFS
- and writes are only about 10% slower; details are in Alex's thesis.)
-
- Alex now works at Teknekron Information Systems, Inc. in Palo Alto, but
- Isis Distributed Systems Inc. is now selling a commercially enhanced
- software product based on his architecture. Email to sla@isis.com to
- inquire for details. The product goes beyond Deceit by transparently
- masking the roll-over from one file server to another, and by supporting
- a fault-tolerant version of the LOCKD protocol, used by the flock system call.
- --
- Kenneth P. Birman E-mail: ken@cs.cornell.edu
- 4105 Upson Hall, Dept. of Computer Science TEL: 607 255-9199 (office)
- Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (USA) FAX: 607 255-4428
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