Hello All, Our team want to develop a distributed file system, a file system like NFS or in other words a remote file access system. In our design we have multiple clients and a single server. I want to identify main issues involved. What I found after doing some study is this: (1) Handling of multiple clients (concurrent read/write problem) (2) Continuation of (1) i.e. the distributed lock management (3) For performance reasons caching on the client side and the cache coherency problem (this can be avoided for our prototype release) (4) Data integrity problem. To solve these issues, I think I have to study NFS, AFS and coda. Also I am doing general googling for finding out distributed file system issues. Since both linux and fs (especially a distributed one) are new to me, I want help in this regard that how I start this development of a prototype and which documents/books to study for this purpose. Thanks, Uzair Lakhani, Karachi, Pakistan. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
