Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mtxinu!shore From: shore@mtxinu.COM (Melinda Shore) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Multithreaded filesystems Message-ID: <1991Mar1.070700.1122@mtxinu.COM> Date: 1 Mar 91 07:07:00 GMT References: <22834@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Feb26.175824.11666@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1991Feb26.194033.9539@convex.com> <1991Feb26.214811.6697@bradley.bradley.edu> <8apb02oe05gc01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Reply-To: shore@mtxinu.com (Melinda Shore) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley Lines: 10 In article <8apb02oe05gc01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> cpm00@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Craig P McLaughlin) writes: >How would one go about adapting a single-threaded filesystem to a UNIX-style >multi-threaded filesystem? Just what kind of changes are going to be needed? Encore has already done this, and done it well. They've also published the details in numerous papers. Look through some recent Usenix proceedings. -- Software longa, hardware brevis Melinda Shore shore@mtxinu.com mt Xinu ..!uunet!mtxinu.com!shore