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Alex FTP Filesystem
Alex is a filesystem that lets users access files in FTP sites around the world just like they access local files. Alex pathnames are composed of 3 parts. First is /alex. Second is a reversed hostname. Last is the path on that host. For example, /alex/edu/berkeley/pub/virus.patch is a file at berkeley.edu.
Coda - an advanced network filesystem
Coda is an advanced networked filesystem. It has been developed at CMU during the last six years by the systems group of M. Satyanarayanan. in the SCS deparment.
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
This filesystem standard has been designed to be used by Unix distribution developers, package developers, and system implementors. However, it is primarily intended to be a reference and is not a tutorial on how to manage a Unix filesystem or directory hierarchy.
Microsoft Research Scalable Servers
The Swarm Scaleable Storage System
The goal of the Swarm project is to design and implement a scalable network storage system based on a cluster of personal computers. Swarm is scalable because its performance is a function of the size of the cluster -- the more nodes in the cluster, the higher the system performance. This performance improvement is not merely an increase in aggregate pe ...