ABSTRACT

Center for Information Technology Integration
University of Michigan
519 West William Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943

CITI Technical Report 92?7

AFS Write Performance - A Campaign Paper

Sarr Blumson
[email protected]

AFS writes are slow. Part of the reason they appear slow is that opportunities to overlap writing with computation are often not used. This paper describes some of these lost opportunities, and advocates (with some gestures toward objectivity) changes to the AFS cache manager to take advantage of them.

December 10, 1992