Just about a year ago, I first mentioned TidyFS, a new, small distributed file system under development by Microsoft Research. Later this week at the Usenix '11 conference, Microsoft researchers ...

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(1) For replication of files across the Internet, see IPFS. (2) A distributed file system is software that keeps track of files stored across multiple servers or networks. When data are requested, a ...

The proliferation of small files in distributed file systems poses significant challenges that affect both storage efficiency and operational performance. Modern systems, such as Hadoop Distributed ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quobyte® Inc., a leading developer of modern storage system software, today announced that the Quobyte Data Center File System is the first distributed file ...

I'm deploying Dfs on a Windows 2000 network and I was wondering if there are any major issues with deploying Dfs I should be aware about. <P>The server running Dfs is a Windows 2000 SP1 machine. If ...