Sprite papers

Sprite Theses

• Fast Crash Recovery in Distributed File Systems. Mary Baker
• Transparent Process Migration in the Sprite Operating System. Frederick Douglis
• Physical Memory Management in a Network Operating System. Michael Newell Nelson
• The Design and Implementation of a Log-structured File System. Mendel Rosenblum
• Naming, State Management, and User-Level Extensions in the Sprite Distributed File System. Brent Ballinger Welch
• Sawmill: A logging file system for a high-performance RAID disk array. Ken Shirriff

Sprite Papers

• A Comparison of Two Distributed Systems: Amoeba and Sprite. Fred Douglis, John K. Ousterhout, M. Frans Kaashoek, Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• Slides from talk on file append vs. overwrite ratios. The results are derived from the same traces as the SOSP paper. This talk was given to the LADDIS group on 1/21/92. John Hartman.
• Why Aren't Operating Systems Getting Faster as Fast as Hardware. John Ousterhout
• A Trace-Driven Analysis of the UNIX BSD File System. John K. Ousterhout, Herve' Da Costa, David Harrison, John A. Kunze, Mike Kupfer, and James G. Thompson
• Measured Performance of Caching in the Sprite Network File System Brent B. Welch
• Caching in the Sprite Network File System. Michael N. Nelson, Brent B. Welch, and John K. Ousterhout
• Sprite Position Statement: Use Distributed State for Failure Recovery. Brent Welch, Mary Baker, Fred Douglis, John Hartman, Mendel Rosenblum, John Ousterhout
• Experience with Process Migration in Sprite. Fred Douglis
• The File System Belongs in the Kernel. Brent Welch
• The Sprite Internet Protocol Server. Andrew Cherenson
• The Jaquith Archive Server. James W. Mott-Smith
• Beating the I/O Bottleneck: A Case for Log-Structured File Systems. John Ousterhout and Fred Douglis
• The LFS Storage Manager. Mendel Rosenblum and John K. Ousterhout
• The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System. Mendel Rosenblum and John K. Ousterhout
• Measurements of a Distributed File System. Mary G. Baker, John H. Hartman, Michael D. Kupfer, Ken W. Shirriff, and John K. Ousterhout
• Performance Measurements of a Multiprocessor Sprite Kernel. John H. Hartman and John K. Ousterhout
• A Trace-Driven Analysis of Name and Attribute Caching in a Distributed System. Ken W. Shirriff and John K. Ousterhout
• Non-Volatile Memory for Fast, Reliable File Systems. Mary Baker, Satoshi Asami, Etienne Deprit, John Ousterhout, Margo Seltzer
• Why Aren't Operating Systems Getting Faster As Fast as Hardware? John K. Ousterhout
• Pseudo Devices: User-Level Extensions to the Sprite File System. Brent B. Welch and John K. Ousterhout
• Pseudo-File-Systems. Brent B. Welch and John K. Ousterhout
• Process Migration in Sprite: A Status Report. Fred Douglis and John Ousterhout
• The Recovery Box: Using Fast Recovery to Provide High Availability in the UNIX Environment. Mary Baker and Mark Sullivan
• Availability in the Sprite Distributed File System. Mary Baker and John Ousterhout
• The Sawmill logging file system. Ken Shirriff
• Slides from a work-in-progress talk on the Sawmill logging file system. Ken Shirriff
• An Implementation of Memory Sharing and File Mapping. Ken Shirriff
• The Sprite Network Operating System. John K. Ousterhout, Andrew R. Cherenson, Frederick Douglis, Michael N. Nelson, Brent B. Welch
• Sprite on Mach. Michael D. Kupfer
• The Role of Distributed State. John K. Ousterhout
• Transparent Process Migration: Design Alternatives and the Sprite Implementation. Fred Douglis and John Ousterhout
• Virtual Memory vs. The File System. Michael N. Nelson
• Virtual Memory for the Sprite Operating System. Michael N. Nelson
• A Comparison of the Vnode and Sprite File System Architectures. Brent Welch
• "Zebra: A Striped Network File System". Appeared in the Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on File Systems. Also as UCB/CSD Tech Report 92/683 John Hartman and John Ousterhout
• The Zebra Striped Network File System. John Hartman and John Ousterhout

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