Partially Connected Operation
Larry Huston, Peter Honeyman · Deep Blue (University of Michigan) · 1995
RPC latencies and other network-related delays can frustrate mobile users of a distributed file system. Disconnected operation helps, but fails to use networking opportunities to their full advantage. In this paper we describe partially connected operation, an extension of disconnected operation that resolves cache misses and preserves client cache consistency, but does not incur the write latencies of a fully connected client. Benchmarks of partially connected mode over a slow network indicate overall system performance comparable to fully connected operation over Ethernet. May 25, 1995 Center for Information Technology Integration University of Michigan 519 West William Street Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943 Partially Connected Operation L.B. Huston [email protected] P. Honeyman [email protected] Center for Information Technology Integration University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1. Introduction An important advantage of a distributed computing environment is on-demand access to d...