Brent Ballinger Welch and John K. Ousterhout

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-86-261

, 1986

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1986/CSD-86-261.pdf

Prefix tables provide a mechanism for locating files in a system whose storage is distributed among many servers. The result is a single file system hierarchy visible uniformly and transparently to all clients. Each client of the filesystem maintains a local prefix table that identifies the server for a file based on the initial part of the file name. Prefix tables are built and modified using a simple broadcast protocol that is flexible enough to allow dynamic server reconfiguration and a simple form of replication.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Welch:CSD-86-261,
    Author= {Welch, Brent Ballinger and Ousterhout, John K.},
    Title= {Prefix Tables: A Simple Mechanism for Locating Files in a Distributed System},
    Year= {1986},
    Month= {Oct},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1986/6075.html},
    Number= {UCB/CSD-86-261},
    Abstract= {Prefix tables provide a mechanism for locating files in a system whose storage is distributed among many servers. The result is a single file system hierarchy visible uniformly and transparently to all clients. Each client of the filesystem maintains a local prefix table that identifies the server for a file based on the initial part of the file name. Prefix tables are built and modified using a simple broadcast protocol that is flexible enough to allow dynamic server reconfiguration and a simple form of replication.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Report
%A Welch, Brent Ballinger 
%A Ousterhout, John K. 
%T Prefix Tables: A Simple Mechanism for Locating Files in a Distributed System
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 1986
%@ UCB/CSD-86-261
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1986/6075.html
%F Welch:CSD-86-261