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Fine-Grained Replicated State Machines for a Cluster Storage System (NSDI 2020)

• monocasa 6y ago
  Weird that they didn't cite Ken Birman's RNFS paper from 1987 on a highly available, fine grained replicated state machine storage cluster. Poor Birman seems to be habitually lost to the sands of time.
  • uluyol 6y ago
    Can you provide more detail? I can't find the paper you are referring to.
    • monocasa 6y ago
      RNFS - A Highly Available Network File Service. K. Birman with S. Armstrong et. al. Workshop on Workstation Operation Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1987. It's about building a clustered NFS server on "virtual synchrony", which is another replicated state machine scheme like paxos and raft. The paper really focuses on some of the issues in making the system very fine grained versus previous virtual synchrony implementations, in addition to the issues in general to making a clustered, highly available, multi master NFS server.
      • hinkley 6y ago
        Have you tried googling for a copy of that paper? That might be part of the reason.
        • monocasa 6y ago
          The universities have access to it.
          • gue5t 6y ago
            This is usually true but I couldn't find any record of an actual published version in proceedings anywhere. On the other hand, a related paper on the same system by a subset of authors is available: http://dl.acm.org.sci-hub.tw/doi/book/10.5555/866299 http://dl.acm.org.sci-hub.tw/doi/book/10.5555/866299