- 72 -The Design of a High-Performance File ServerRobbert van Renesse* Andrew S. TanenbaumAnnita Wilschut‡Dept. of Computer Science Vrije Universiteit The NetherlandsABSTRACTThe Bullet server is an innovative file server that outperforms tradi- tional file servers like SUN’s NFS by more than a factor of three. It achieves high throughput and low delay by a radically different software design than current file servers in use. Instead of storing files as a sequence of disk blocks, each Bullet serv