From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] history question ("Athena's OldFiles")
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 23:01:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26857.1147489314@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
According to http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9/about.html:
Slowly, ideas from Plan 9 are being adopted by other systems.
[...] The dump file system has been mimicked in Athena's
OldFiles directories or Network Appliance's .snapshot
directories.
I don't know much about Athena, but I believe OldFiles
has been the name for "yesterday's read-only snapshot"
in AFS since the mid 1980's. The snapshot is mentioned,
although not by name, in Section 6.5 ("Backup") of
"Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System"
(Howard et al., ACM TOCS, Feb. 1988), which documents
AFS as of early 1987.
My vague understanding, which could be wrong, is that
in the late 80's or early 90's, there was cross-fertilization
when Athena switched from NFS to AFS, and AFS switched
from home-grown authentication to Kerberos. If so the
appearance of OldFiles at MIT may well be after, but not
caused by, the Plan 9 WORM file server's dump tree.
Dave Eckhardt
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2006-05-13 3:01 Dave Eckhardt [this message]
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2006-06-02 16:31 ` chad brown
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