RNFS - A Highly Available Network File Service. K. Birman with S. Armstrong et. al. Workshop on Workstation Operation Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1987.
It's about building a clustered NFS server on "virtual synchrony", which is another replicated state machine scheme like paxos and raft. The paper really focuses on some of the issues in making the system very fine grained versus previous virtual synchrony implementations, in addition to the issues in general to making a clustered, highly available, multi master NFS server.
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 25.2 ms ] threadPoor Birman seems to be habitually lost to the sands of time.
It's about building a clustered NFS server on "virtual synchrony", which is another replicated state machine scheme like paxos and raft. The paper really focuses on some of the issues in making the system very fine grained versus previous virtual synchrony implementations, in addition to the issues in general to making a clustered, highly available, multi master NFS server.
That might be part of the reason.
On the other hand, a related paper on the same system by a subset of authors is available: http://dl.acm.org.sci-hub.tw/doi/book/10.5555/866299