>>
>> As a faculty member at the University of Texas, I teach both university and
>> industry courses on distributed systems. I regularly use AFS as a case
>> study of a distributed file system.
>>
>> I was wondering if someone could help me find out about the enhancements
>> that were made to AFS to produce DCE's DFS. I am particularly interested
>> in how replication of read/write files is supported and in the new consistency
>> mechanisms that use tokens.
>>
>> I realize papers don't yet exist on DFS, so any non-proprietary scraps of
>> documentation you could share with me would be most appreciated.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Jeff Brumfield
>>
Jeff,
Recommended sources: The OSF/DCE v1.0 doc set (Prentice Hall). If you
don't want to splurge you can just get the Intro book (from the same).
Unfortunately, the technical content is probably not at the level that
you are looking for. Issues like Token state recovery, specifics on
replication are not detailed.
There are a host of technical white papers that have been written on
these and other topics, but to the best of my knowledge are available
only to OSF/DCE licensees.
The OSF also offers a DCE Internals course, which covers a lot of
these issues in much greater detail. It is open to the public -
contact Jodi Smith Bennett @ OSF ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Transarc also offers
a similar class.
-Jonathan
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