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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!kaiwan.kaiwan.com!pell.pell.chi.il.us!there.is.no.cabal From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy Date: 20 Feb 1996 16:40:31 -0800 Organization: The Dread Pirate Roberts Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4gdplv$7j@downbelow.pell.chi.il.us> References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <4fm2b1$ivs@park.uvsc.edu> <4fu70i$20q@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <4g32gv$esr@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: downbelow.pell.chi.il.us Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14685 comp.os.linux.development.system:18464 In article <4g32gv$esr@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc) wrote: >> >> In article <4fm2b1$ivs@park.uvsc.edu>, >> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >> >> >The best paper I have seen on this so far is Gregory R. Ganger >> >and Yale N. Pratt's paper "Metadata Update Performance in File >> >Systems", where they propose a mechanism they term "soft updates". >> > >> >A related paper, Eric H. Herrin II and Raphael A. Finkel's "The >> >Viva File System" goes into some detail on what constitutes an >> >idempotent vs. a non-idempotent operation, and where you must >> >guarantee order atomicity -- as does the UCB "SPRITE" paper. >> >> >> Where are these papers available? > > >On the Internet. > >Oh, you mean you want their URLs... again. Again? Well, yes, someone did mail me the ftp location for the viva paper, but I presume that's not the 'again' you're talking about. (This is an interesting example of the unreliability of usenet news for timely delivery of anything; I've had possession of the Viva paper for about three days now and have finished reading it. Interesting stuff, but I don't really see what it has to do about sync metadata aside from pointing out that it's dreadfully slow. Not quite as slow as the IP connection from Pasadena to MIT <grrr>, but pretty close.) ____ david parsons \bi/ comp.filesystems.ffs.advocacy. I see a great need. \/