WebOS System Status

We have completed a preliminary version of WebFS interfacing at the Solaris vnode layer. The current implementation has been tested on Sparc Stations running Solaris 2.4 and 2.5. WebFS supports operations such as invoking grep on a list of URLs from a normal UNIX shell, running arbitrary executables which retrieve local URLs for input, and compilation of remote source trees simply by providing URLs to applications such as cc and make. The initial alpha release contains:

• Transparent URL access: unmodified appliactions can read and write the URL name space.
• Caching: The file system will cache remote URLs for both reading and writing using the AFS ``Last Writer Wins'' invalidation protocol.
• Access Control List: Site administrators will be able to control which sites and users have access rights to their local file system.

An ALPHA version of WebFS is available as a Solaris binary distribution. Release notes are included with the distribution.

Potential projects associated with WebOS.

Working bibliography for the WebOS project.

Internal release of a read only webfs file system to the NOW cluster.