Assignment handed out on Monday, March 12, 2001

Due in Recitation on 3/13/2001:

• Read Chapter 8 from the text. Focus on NFS and AFS. Read The Echo Distributed File System. Your writing/discussion assignment:

  Compare and contrast the read and write caching schemes used by NFS, AFS, and Echo. Suppose you were asked to recommend the use of one of the three for a new, fast-moving, small software company. Which one would you recommend? Use your caching analysis as a basis. Make sure to list the assumptions underlying your choice.