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13th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
Replication policies for layered clustering of NFS servers
Atlanta, Georgia
September 27-September 29
ISBN: 0-7695-2458-3
Raja R. Sambasivan, Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew J. Klosterman, Carnegie Mellon University
Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

Layered clustering offers cluster-like load balancing for unmodified NFS or CIFS servers. Read requests sent to a busy server can be offloaded to other servers holding replicas of the accessed files. This paper explores a key design question for this approach: which files should be replicated? We find that the popular policy of replicating readonly Files offers little benefit. A policy that replicates readonly portions of read-mostly files, however, implicitly coordinates with client cache invalidations and thereby allows almost all read operations to be offloaded. In a read-heavy trace, 75% of all operations and 52% of all data transfers can be offloaded.

Citation:
Raja R. Sambasivan, Andrew J. Klosterman, Gregory R. Ganger, "Replication policies for layered clustering of NFS servers," mascots, pp.361-370, 13th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2005
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