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Chapter 7 File servers

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Local Area Networks: An Advanced Course

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This chapter discusses file servers that are accessible via some form of local network or internetwork. It characterizes file services from the client point of view along a number of dimensions; distributivity of the service itself, the network environment of the service, the file model supported by the service, the kind(s) of atomic update provided by the service, the techniques used for controlling the allocation of files. It then describes the client interfaces to three existing file services. Finally, the impact of these features on design and implementation is discussed. An appendix contains characterizations of a variety of existing network-based file services using the criteria developed in the chapter.

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D. Hutchison J. A. Mariani W. D. Shepherd

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Mitchell, J.G. (1985). Chapter 7 File servers. In: Hutchison, D., Mariani, J.A., Shepherd, W.D. (eds) Local Area Networks: An Advanced Course. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 184. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-15191-5_22

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