Reading Assignment 7: Distributed File-systems

Mandatory papers to read:

• R. Sandberg, The Sun Network Filesystem: Design, Implementation and Experience, USENIX 1986
• J.H. Howard, M.L. Kazar, S.G. Menees, D.A. Nichols, M. Satyanarayanan, R.N. Sidebotham, M.J. West, Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, February 1988
• A. Muthitacharoen, B. Chen, and D. Mazieres, A Low-Bandwidth Network File System, SOSP 2001

Read all of the papers listed above and select two of the papers to write a report for.

Due date for your report: October 30, 2025. No deadline extensions are possible. Bring your printed report to the lecture.

Detailed instructions can be found here.