[OpenAFS] looking for (old) paper discussing the global name space

[Steven Jenkins]

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You might take a look at https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/95dec/dec95a3.pdf.
That's for DCE/DFS, not AFS, but it discusses how global namespace
management was done in the DCE/DFS context.

DNS also has AFSDB records, and you could look to find the RFC(s) that
covered those (e.g., RFC 5395)  However, I do not know that they were/are
widely-used.

Steven


On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 2:53 AM Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A bit off topic, but as NFSv4 is implementing cross-server referrals, the
> prospect of having a central server that just makes referrals to other
> (data-hosting) servers as a sort of global file system namespace has come
> up, and I offered to find a reference to use for discussion of the prior
> work.  For context, that reference would be used from
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-rfc5661sesqui-msns-02#section-11.5.6
> .  I did find
>
> https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~satya/docdir/spasojevic-tocs-afs-measurement-1996.pdf
> which has some discussion of this topic in the scope of a broader
> retrospective on the wide-area filesystem, but I was wondering if anyone
> knew of a more-focused reference for the global nature of the namespace.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
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 class=3D"gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 2:53 AM Benjamin Kaduk &lt;<a =
href=3D"mailto:kaduk@mit.edu">kaduk@mit.edu</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockq=
uote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-wi=
dth:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-=
left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
A bit off topic, but as NFSv4 is implementing cross-server referrals, the<b=
r>
prospect of having a central server that just makes referrals to other<br>
(data-hosting) servers as a sort of global file system namespace has come<b=
r>
up, and I offered to find a reference to use for discussion of the prior<br=
>
work.=C2=A0 For context, that reference would be used from<br>
<a href=3D"https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-rfc5661sesqui-msns-=
02#section-11.5.6" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://tools.ietf.=
org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-rfc5661sesqui-msns-02#section-11.5.6</a><br>
.=C2=A0 I did find<br>
<a href=3D"https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~satya/docdir/spasojevic-tocs-afs-measure=
ment-1996.pdf" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://www.cs.cmu.edu/=
~satya/docdir/spasojevic-tocs-afs-measurement-1996.pdf</a><br>
which has some discussion of this topic in the scope of a broader<br>
retrospective on the wide-area filesystem, but I was wondering if anyone<br=
>
knew of a more-focused reference for the global nature of the namespace.<br=
>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
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