Client requirements for a UNIX-based network file-transport utility

A file-transport utility is being developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to meet the requirements specified by users. It is intended to be useful for general UNIX environments using TCP/IP. It will communicate with FTP demons, a centralized persistence server, and the UniTree storage system. To provide true transparency, a global machine-independent name space, an integrated storage hierarchy, which includes automatic file migration and distributed locking, and quick data transport are required. Efforts in this direction include the development of commercially available, high-performance, high-capacity network peripherals, and attempts to merge network operating systems with archival storage systems.<
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