What is the right amount of statelessness in a file server?
Mogul, J.C.
Workstation Operating Systems, 1989., Proceedings of the Second Workshop on
Volume , Issue , 27-29 Sep 1989 Page(s):82 - 85
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/WWOS.1989.109272
Summary:It is argued that although the stateless server model has proved quite useful to network file systems, statelessness is a means to an end and should not be an end in itself. The author maintains that statelessness can be a severe impediment to building efficient, reliable systems. He concludes that if its actual advantages can be preserved in a stateful system without too much effort, statelessness as a dogma should be discarded

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