Re-engineering the Los Alamos Common File System
The Los Alamos National Laboratory's Common File System is being substantially upgraded so it will continue to meet the future data storage needs of the Laboratory and other sites. The nature of computing is changing with the advent of workstations, different work loads, and standard approaches to networking and operating systems. We reviewed the pros and cons of the Common File System and numerous existing and planned systems. Our conclusion was that the Common File System was a valuable resource with many strengths that should be preserved for the future. We have arrived at a set of recommendations for changes and additions that we feel will allow the Common File System to continue to meet data storage needs in both the short and long term. The recommendations for 1990--1992 support the transition to Unix on supercomputers and support high performance networking. The recommendations for 1992--1995 support the transition to a Unix type file system that provides a significant level of file location transparency. For 1995--2000 the recommendations are necessarily less precise but support the notion of standard security, transparent file systems and faster networking. 11 refs.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/MA
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 7129074
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-90-32; CONF-9005105-1; ON: DE90007887
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 10. IEEE symposium on mass storage systems, Monterey, CA (USA), 7-10 May 1990
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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