A performance comparison of NFS and iSCSI for IP-networked storage

Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, FAST 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Radkov, Peter ^a   Yin, Li ^c   Goyal, Pawan ^b   Sarkar, Prasenjit ^b   Shenoy, Prashant ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; METADATA;

DATA SHARING; DATA-INTENSIVE WORKLOADS; LAN ENVIRONMENTS; LINUX PLATFORM; MICRO AND MACRO; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 85084164015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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