Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System-英文文献.pdf

Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System JAMES J. KISTLER and M. SATYANARAYANAN Carnegie Mellon University Disconnected operation is a mode of operation that enables a client to continue accessing critical data during temporary failures of a shared data repository. An important, though not exclusive, application of disconnected operation is in supporting portable computers. In this paper, we show that disconnected operation is feasible, efficient and usable by describing its design and imple- mentation in the Coda File System. The central idea behind our work is that caching of data, now widely used for performance, can also be exploited to improve availability. Categories and Subject Descriptors: D,4.3 [Operating Systems]: File Systems Management: —distributed file systems; D.4.5 [Operating Systems]: Reliability— fault tolerance; D.4.8 [Operating Systems]: Performance —nzeasurements General Terms: Design, Experimentation, Measurement, Performance, Reliability Additional Key Words and Phrases: Disconnected operation, hoarding, optimistic replication, reintegration, second-class replication, server emulation 1. INTRODUCTION Every serious user of a distributed system has faced situations where critical work has been impeded by a remote failure. His frustration is particularly acute when his workstation is powerful enough to be used standalone, but has been configured to be dependent on remote resources. An important inst ante of