{"title":"What is the right amount of statelessness in a file server?","authors":"J. Mogul","doi":"10.1109/WWOS.1989.109272","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It is argued that although the stateless server model has proved quite useful to network file systems, statelessness is a means to an end and should not be an end in itself. The author maintains that statelessness can be a severe impediment to building efficient, reliable systems. He concludes that if its actual advantages can be preserved in a stateful system without too much effort, statelessness as a dogma should be discarded.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":342782,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WWOS.1989.109272","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
It is argued that although the stateless server model has proved quite useful to network file systems, statelessness is a means to an end and should not be an end in itself. The author maintains that statelessness can be a severe impediment to building efficient, reliable systems. He concludes that if its actual advantages can be preserved in a stateful system without too much effort, statelessness as a dogma should be discarded.<>