Overview of the Internet file system

Herman Chung Hwa Rao; Ming Feng Chen; Feng-Jian Wang

doi:10.1109/CMPSAC.1997.625047

Overview of the Internet file system

Herman Chung Hwa Rao^*, Ming Feng Chen, Feng-Jian Wang

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Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

The Internet File System (IFS) extends the scope of file systems from LANs to the Internet, encouraging collaboration and information dissemination on a much broader scale. In addition, Internet resources (e.g., Web pages, Gopher Information, and Network News) become files in IFS, allowing file system APIs and existing tools and commands to be used to manipulate Internet resources just like conventional files. IFS is unique in that it introduces a logical layer between applications and operating systems, and integrates widely-used protocols like FTP, HTTP, GOPHER, NNTP, RSH in this layer. The system is transparent to applications and operating systems, and requires no modification of software nor change in management of Internet file servers. A prototype of IFS is currently running on Sun OS 4.1, Solaris, HP-UX, SVR4, SGI MIPS, and Linux.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	474-477
Number of pages	4
Journal	Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's International Computer Software and Applications Conference
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1997.625047
State	Published - 1 Jan 1997
Event	Proceedings of the 1997 21st Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference, COMPSAC'97 - Washington, DC, USA Duration: 13 Aug 1997 → 15 Aug 1997

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