Cluster-based file replication in large-scale distributed systems
Harjinder S. Sandhu, Songnian Zhou · 1992
The increasing need for data sharing in large-scale distributed systems may place a heavy burden on critical resources such as file servers and networks. Our examination of the workload in one large commercial engineering environment shows that wide-spread sharing of unstable files among tens to hundreds of users is common. Traditional client-based file cacheing techniques are not scalable in such environments.