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	I need references for the published papers/books on 
	the V storage server.
	
	Please reply by email, to starovic@cs.tcd.ie
	
	The Distributed Systems Group,
	Department of Computer Science, 
	Trinity College Dublin
	
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The only published paper describing the V "storage server" is:

    David R. Cheriton and Paul Roy.
    "Performance of the V storage server: A preliminary report."
    ACM Computer Science Conference, March 1985.

The functionality of the server has also been extended to support
"log file systems" that treat storage as append only.  This work is described 
in:

    Ross S. Finlayson and David R. Cheriton.
    "Log files: An extended file service exploiting write-once storage."
    Proceedings of the Eleventh Symposium on Operating System Principles,
    November 1987.

and in further detail in my PhD thesis, which should be available soon as 
a technical report.

In the V-System, both regular files and log files (as well as devices,
address spaces, graphics windows, etc. etc.) are accessed using a uniform I/O
protocol, which is described in:

    David R. Cheriton.
    "UIO: a uniform I/O system interface for distributed systems."
    ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 5(1), February 1987.

I hope this helps.

	Ross.