The Logistical File System: A Network File System Designed for
Scalable Resource Sharing
Micah Beck,
Terry Moore and
James S. Plank,
Technical Report UT-CS-00-468, University of Tennessee, August, 2001.
This was presented in the 2nd International
Workshop on Grid Computing.
See this link for the full citation and
paper text.
Available at
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~tmoore/docs/cs_tech/exposed_grid.ps and
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~tmoore/docs/cs_tech/exposed_grid.pdf.
Abstract
The dichotomy between the exposed and encapsulated approaches
to computer systems architectures is well known in contexts such as the
processor design (RISC vs. CISC) and layered network service stacks. In
this paper we examine how this basic choice of approaches arises in the
design of the Internet Backplane Protocol, a network storage service,
and as an issue in Grid architecture more generally.