Thomas Kunz
Systems and Computer Engineering
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File Systems: Limited Connectivity
nData management
–management
of buffered data and copies of data
–request for
updates, validity of data
–detection
of changes in data
nConflict solving
–application
specific or general
–errors
nSeveral experimental systems exist
–Coda
(Carnegie Mellon University), Little Work (University of Michigan), Ficus (UCLA) etc.
nMany systems use ideas from distributed file systems
such as, e.g., AFS (Andrew File System)