Toward massive distributed file systems
Blaze, M.; Alonso, R.
Workstation Operating Systems, 1992. Proceedings., Third Workshop on
Volume , Issue , 23-24 Apr 1992 Page(s):48 - 51
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/WWOS.1992.275690
Summary:Massive scale in distributed file systems remains an elusive goal. Existing systems are generally limited to only a few hundred clients or make restrictive assumptions, such as that widely shared files are read-only. It is argued that a truly massive system must scale for all kinds of files; file access traces suggest that occasionally written files make up too large a proportion of shared reads to be ignored. The file access patterns that are likely to be important in the large-scale systems of the future are outlined, and a scheme for constructing dynamic client hierarchies that may work on a much greater scale than conventional approaches is described

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