Vohunes: The Andrew File System Data Structuring Primitive
Bob Sidebotham · 2003
Volumes are the basic organizing mechanism for data in the Andrew file system, a large distributed system designed to support thousands of workstations. Volumes provide the basis for addressing, storing, and accessing the information within the system. They are independent of the physical configuration of the system, and may be freely moved about as the needs of the system dictate without disrupting the ongoing work of users. Various other features of volumes combine to make them a powerful mechanism supporting the administration of this file system. Introduction with possible overlap between the servers for The Information Technology Center availability and pertbrmance reasons. Whole was established in cooperation with the IBM file transfer is used in both systems to transfer corporation to enhance the level of comput- files to and from workstations, and the ing technolo _ r at CameNe-Mellon Univer- workstations are responsible for caching