Title :
Clue tables: a naming mechanism for building highly available and scalable distributed file systems
Author :
Cheng-Zen Yang ; Yen-Jen Oyang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
The naming mechanism plays an important role in a distributed file system. It is one of the determining factors that affect the availability, scalability, and management work of the distributed system. This paper proposes a new naming mechanism called ´clue tables´. The clue table mechanism offers all the desirable features of high availability and high scalability, and a simple procedure for expanding the file server capacity.<>
Keywords :
distributed databases; file servers; table lookup; clue tables; distributed file systems; distributed system management; file server capacity expansion procedure; high availability; high scalability; naming mechanism; Availability; Computer science; Degradation; File servers; File systems; Scalability; Sprites (computer); Tiles; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON '93. Proceedings. Computer, Communication, Control and Power Engineering.1993 IEEE Region 10 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing, China
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1233-3
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.1993.319985
