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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


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