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Brief Announcement: The Design and Evaluation of a Distributed Reliable File System

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Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009)

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Network file systems provide access to data in a networked environment. If such systems operate in a client-server (C/S) mode, e.g., NFS (Network File System) or SMB (Server Message Block), issues concerning the scalability, the presence of a single point of failure, and fault tolerance emerge. Scalability issues, such as coping with an increasing number of clients, need to be addressed, since bandwidth on the server side may be limited and expensive. Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are, in contrast to C/S systems, fault-tolerant, robust, and scalable. Distributed file systems based on P2P networks can help to avoid such problems. Besides, P2P systems are self-organizing, requiring less management, thus reducing maintenance costs.

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  1. University of Zurich, CSG@IFI, Binzmuehlestrasse 14, CH-8050, Zurich, Switzerland

    Dalibor Peric, Thomas Bocek, Fabio Hecht, David Hausheer & Burkhard Stiller

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  1. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Rachid Guerraoui

  2. LIP, ENS Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, 69236, Lyon cedex 07, France

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Peric, D., Bocek, T., Hecht, F., Hausheer, D., Stiller, B. (2009). Brief Announcement: The Design and Evaluation of a Distributed Reliable File System. In: Guerraoui, R., Petit, F. (eds) Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems. SSS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5873. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05118-0_66

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