What is the right amount of statelessness in a file server?
Mogul, J.C.
Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard, MA;
This paper appears in: Workstation Operating Systems, 1989., Proceedings of the Second Workshop on
Publication Date: 27-29 Sep 1989
On page(s): 82-85
Meeting Date: 09/27/1989 - 09/29/1989
Location: Pacific Grove, CA, USA
References Cited: 6
INSPEC Accession Number: 3614109
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/WWOS.1989.109272
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
Abstract
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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