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A Remote-File Cache for RFS

29 April 1987

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Remote File Sharing (RFS) in UNIX(R) System V implements cacheing of remote-file data on client machines. While cacheing improves the system performance, it raises the issues of preserving consistency between multiple copies of file data. The design we chose ensures that cached data is identical to the remote file content at the time of user access from any machine on the network.