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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Development...
To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
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> I saw sun in this list, and seeing as I wanted to know more about 
> FreeBSD's filesystems, which I know use this 'vnode' stuff (it's a 
> buzzword to me) and I know sun originated vnodes (from the Heidemann 
> papaer) I went to the reference quoted above.  Or tried to, nslookup says 
> ftp.sun.com doesn't exist.  Was this a mistake, or has the sun archive 
> moved, or what?  And do you happen to know the name of the paper involved?


I just tried sun.com and ftp.sun.com; neither worked. ?!?

The Sun vnode architecture papers are actually in the Proceedings of
Usenix.  Here are the obvious references:


ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/summer85/sun-nfs-paper.ps.Z
	The Sun NFS paper

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/summer86/vnode.ps.Z
	The Sun VFS/vnode interface paper

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/summer90/ficus.ps.Z
	The ficus paper; a smaller writeup of some of the information on
	ftp.cs.ucla.edu.

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/summer91/ficus.ps.Z
	Another ficus paper.

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/summer90/lfs.ps.Z
	The LFS paper.

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/summer90/evolv-vnode.ps.Z
	Rosenthal's stacking vnode architecture (a competitor to FICUS)

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/summer92/cmfs.paper.ps.Z
ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/summer92/cmfs.figs.ps.Z
	The Continuous media file system

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/winter88/andrew-file-sys-overview.ps.Z   
	The Andrew file system

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/winter90/disk-scheduling.ps.Z
	Disk scheduling (one of the authors, Margo Seltzer, has done
	most of the recent LFS work).

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/winter91/sunos41.clust.filesys.ps.Z
	The UFS clustering paper.

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/winter91/sun-multithread-arch.ps.Z
	Sun's paper on kernel multithreading including the file system

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/winter92/convex-filesys.extabs.ps.Z

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/winter92/multi-level-caching.ps.Z
	Caching.

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/winter92/name-caching.ps.Z
	DNLC style caching

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/winter93/unix-disk-access.ps.Z
	Disk access (fs related)

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/winter93/unix-lfs-impl.ps.Z   
	Another LFS paper

ftp://ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix/filesys.1/*
	Lots of interesting FS papers, including the Berkeley Sprite
	file system vnode interface.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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