Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 19:05:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Development... Message-ID: <199511040205.TAA05787@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951103172654.12480A-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Nov 3, 95 05:31:55 pm
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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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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