Multithreaded filesystems

[Fletcher Kittredge]

In article <1991Mar1.070700.1122 at mtxinu.COM> shore at mtxinu.com (Melinda Shore) writes:
>In article <8apb02oe05gc01 at JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> cpm00 at 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

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regards,
fletcher

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