Optimizing Throughput in a Workstation-based Network File System over a High Bandwidth Local Area Network

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-40

  Faber, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Systems; High Speed LANs; Network File Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542447100     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/280559.280565     Document Type: Article

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