Servers reintegration in disconnection-resilient file systems for mobile clients

Author

Boukerche, Azzedine ; Al-Shaikh, Raed

Author_Institution

SITE, Ottawa Univ., Ont.

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Lastpage

114

Abstract

Servers´ reintegration is a mode of file system operation that allows file servers to synchronize their data after network partitions. The reintegration design supports the main objectives of the disconnection-resilient file systems, which is to provide high available and reliable storage for files, and guarantees that file operations are executed in spite of concurrency and failures. In this paper, we show that server reintegration is efficient and practical by describing its design and implementation in paradise file system. Moreover, we report on its performance evaluation using a cluster of workstations. Our results indicate clearly that our design exhibits a significant degree of automation and conflict-free mobile file system

Keywords

file organisation; mobile computing; network operating systems; software fault tolerance; software performance evaluation; workstation clusters; Paradise File System; data synchronization; disconnection-resilient file systems; file servers; file storage; mobile clients; mobile file system; network partitions; server reintegration; workstation cluster; Concurrent computing; Design automation; Emulation; File servers; File systems; Intelligent networks; Laboratories; Network servers; Venus; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Workshops, 2006. ICPP 2006 Workshops. 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Columbus, OH

ISSN

1530-2016

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2637-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPPW.2006.70

Filename

1690691