Problems

• Hardware

  • unbalanced systems
  • underconfigured systems

• Software

  • unstable, poorly performing
  • I/O interface borrowed from sequential Unix
  • User cannot convey “big picture” of I/O pattern to file system
    • Consequently, file system cannot perform optimizations
  • No single standard I/O interface for applications to use.

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