@InProceedings{debergalis:dafs,
  author = {Matt DeBergalis and Peter Corbett and Steve Kleiman and Arthur Lent
  and Dave Noveck and Tom Talpey and Mark Wittle},
  title = {The Direct Access File System},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the USENIX FAST '03 Conference on File and
  Storage Technologies},
  year = {2003},
  month = {April},
  publisher = {USENIX Association},
  address = {San Francisco, CA},
  URL = {http://www.usenix.org/events/fast03/tech/debergalis.html},
  keywords = {direct access file system, dafs, remote dma, pario-bib},
  abstract = {The Direct Access File System (DAFS) is a new, fast, and
  lightweight remote file system protocol. DAFS targets the data center by
  addressing the performance and functional needs of clusters of application
  servers. We call this the local file sharing environment. File access
  performance is improved by utilizing Direct Access Transports, such as
  InfiniBand, Remote Direct Data Placement, and the Virtual Interface
  Architecture. DAFS also enhances file sharing semantics compared to prior
  network file system protocols. Applications using DAFS through a user-space
  I/O library can bypass operating system overhead, further improving
  performance. We present performance measurements of an IP-based DAFS network,
  demonstrating the DAFS protocol's lower client CPU requirements over
  commodity Gigabit Ethernet. We also provide the first multiprocessor scaling
  results for a well-known application (GNU gzip) converted to use DAFS.}
}