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In this paper we describe PAFS, a new parallel/distributed file system. Within the whole file system, special interest is placed on the caching mechanism. We present a cooperative cache that has the advantages of cooperation and avoids the problems derived from the coherence mechanisms. Furthermore, this has been achieved with a reasonable gain in performance. In order to show the obtained performance, we present a comparison between PAFS and xFS (a file system that also implements a cooperative cache).
This paper has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education (CICYT) under the TIC-94-537 and TIC-95-0429 contracts.
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Cortes, T., Girona, S., Labarta, J. (1997). Avoiding the cache-coherence problem in a parallel/distributed file system. In: Hertzberger, B., Sloot, P. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1225. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0031657
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