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NFS is a distributed file system which is widely used in UNIX environments. Many studies have been worked to improve its I/O performance and scalability. However, existing architectures, which have either single load balancer or meta server, could suffer from single-point-of-failure and unnecessary network delay. We propose a new NFS architecture called mNFS cluster to improve its scalability. Experimental results show that mNFS outperforms both Linux NFS and NFSp by 64% and 99%, respectively.
The authors would like to thank the Ministry of Education of Korea for its support toward the Electrical and Computer Engineering Division at POSTECH through its BK21 program. This research was also supported in part by HY-SDR IT Research Center and in part by grant No. R01-2003-000-10739-0 from the Basic Research Program of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation.
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Lee, WG., Park, CI., Kim, DW. (2004). mNFS: Multicast-Based NFS Cluster. In: Bubak, M., van Albada, G.D., Sloot, P.M.A., Dongarra, J. (eds) Computational Science - ICCS 2004. ICCS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24688-6_49
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