Not Quite NFS, Soft Cache Consistency for NFS

USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 261-278

  MacKlem, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE CONSISTENCY; CLIENT SIDE CACHING; DESIGN WORK; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; NORMAL OPERATIONS; PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS; PERFORMANCE WORKSTATIONS;

EID: 12244262137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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