Concept of Distributed FS

• DFS Classification (M, Satyanarayanan from the perspective of FS design & computing model can be classified into 4 levels)
  • Single user single process, example:IBM PC-DOS & Apale Macintosh
  • Single user multi-processes, example:OS/2
  • Multi-users share data, example:Unix is the archetype of a timesharing FS
  • Multi-user physically dispersed in a network of autonomous computers share in the use of a common FS, example:Distributed FS

History of DFS

• 1980-1990
  • example: NFS, AFS(Andrew FS)
• 1990-1995
  • example: xFS, Tiger Shark, Petal Frangipani, SFS(Science FS)
• 1995-2000
  • example: GFS, GPFS, DiFFS, CXFS, HighRoad?, qFS, XNFS
• 2000~
  • PanFS, Lustre

Reference

• M. Satyanarayanan, “A survey of distributed File System,” Department of computer Science carnegie mellon university, 1989​
• 黃華、楊德志、張建剛，分散式文件系統，「中國科學院計算技術研究所工程中心」​