Paper Info
Title
The TRIPOS filing machine, a front end to a file server
Abstract
This paper discusses an experiment which sets out to improve the performance of a number of single user computers which rely on a general purpose file server for their filing systems. The background is described in detail in reference [1], but for completeness it is necessary to say something about it here. The Cambridge Distributed Computing System consists, at the time of writing, of between 50 and 60 machines of various types, connected by a digital communications ring. On the ring, there are two file servers [2], [3], which are general purpose (or "universal" [4]) in the sense that they have no commitment to a particular directory or access control structure. This is done in order that they may support several client systems, and so that new systems may be added without difficulty. We speak of a particular directory and access control structure implemented over the file server as "a filing system".
Year
DOI
Venue
1983
10.1145/800217.806620
SOSP
Keywords
Field
DocType
particular directory,computing system,general purpose,client system,access control structure,general purpose file server,new system,tripos filing machine,digital communication,file server,filing system,front end,access control
Working directory,Stub file,Self-certifying File System,Directory,Computer science,Fork (file system),Versioning file system,Unix file types,Operating system,Computer file,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
5
0163-5980
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-89791-115-6
5
9.49
References 
Authors
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. F. Richardson160161.17
Roger M. Needham246482075.99