Summary
Explore the Andrew File System to understand how distributed file systems handle scalability, caching, and consistency. Learn its protocol design that minimizes server interactions, supports many clients, and offers a simple consistency model. Discover why AFS's concepts influence modern systems despite its decline.
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AFS shows us how distributed file systems can be built quite differently than what we saw with NFS. The protocol design of AFS is particularly important. By minimizing server interactions (through whole-file caching and callbacks), each server ...