Using Reconciliation to Share Files Between Occasionally Connected Computers

Future large distributed systems will be made by interconnecting highly autonomous subsystems, rather than by building ever more elaborate complexes which attempt to provide a single system image transparent to the user. The work described here explores the implications of this in the context of file sharing using occasional reconciliation. To be published in Fourth Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems (WWOS-IV), Napa, California, October 14-15, 1993. This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part without payment of fee is granted for nonprofit educational and research purposes provided that all such whole or partial copies include the following: a notice that such copying is by permission of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories of Cambridge, Massachusetts; an acknowledgment of the authors and individual contributions to the work; and all applicable portions of the copyright notice. Copying, reproduction, or republishing for any other purpose shall require a license with payment of fee to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. All rights reserved. Copyright © Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., 1994 201 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Revision History:— 1. First version: May 27, 1993 2. Reformatted: July 7, 1994