Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!rice!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!bbn.com!fkittred From: fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Multithreaded filesystems Message-ID: <63060@bbn.BBN.COM> Date: 1 Mar 91 12:36:51 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> <1991Mar1.070700.1122@mtxinu.COM> Sender: news@bbn.com Reply-To: fkittred@spca.bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 25 In article <1991Mar1.070700.1122@mtxinu.COM> shore@mtxinu.com (Melinda Shore) writes: >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. >-- And through "Computing Systems", "Mach/4.3BSD: a Conservative Approach to Parallelization" Joseph Boykin and Alan Langerman Computing Systems, Winter 1990 > Software longa, hardware brevis >Melinda Shore shore@mtxinu.com >mt Xinu ..!uunet!mtxinu.com!shore regards, fletcher Fletcher Kittredge Platforms and Tools Group, BBN Software Products 10 Fawcett Street, Cambridge, MA. 02138 617-873-3465 / fkittred@bbn.com / fkittred@das.harvard.edu