Using Reconciliation to Share Files Between Occasionally Connected Computers

Future large distributed systems will be made by interconnecting highly autonomous subsystems, rather than by building ever more elaborate complexes which attempt to provide a single system image transparent to the user. The work described here explores the implications of this in the context of file sharing using occasional reconciliation. Fourth Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems (WWOS-IV), Napa, California, October 14-15, 1993 This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part without payment of fee is granted for nonprofit educational and research purposes provided that all such whole or partial copies include the following: a notice that such copying is by permission of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.; an acknowledgment of the authors and individual contributions to the work; and all applicable portions of the copyright notice. Copying, reproduction, or republishing for any othe...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1993
• Where: HOTOS
• Authors: John H. Howard
• Keywords: Electric Research Laboratories, HOTOS 1993, Large Distributed Systems, Mitsubishi Electric Research, Operating System