Today marks the availability of Alluxio 1.0, the first major release of the memory-centric, virtual distributed file system formerly known as Tachyon. The graduate of UC Berkeley’s AMPLab is already ...

I looked at some distributed file systems but it seems they are all geared towards big cloud data except maybe BlueFS/EnsemBlue, but except some papers I didn't find anything about it.

When data are requested, a distributed file system (DFS) converts the file names into the physical location of the files so they can be accessed. See Dfs.

I'm told Dist. File system will do this, so I tried it out. I made a new root and mapped it to the share on my PC behind the firewall (we'll say \\waubpc\DFS\) and the name of the NAT server is ...

Gitenstein sees a need for Qumulo to co-exist with object stores like S3, even if Gartner is forecasting that distributed file systems and object stores will eventually merge into a single “universal ...

“Many users have performance complaints but this is often less a problem of the file system and more of the storage media for the types of workloads that are running,” Oehme says. “If you look at some ...

You can move seldom-used files to offline storage, but in Windows 2000, you have another option when server hard drives begin to fill up: you can build a Distributed File System (DFS) tree.

After a file is uploaded, encrypted and distributed to the nodes, it is no longer kept on the server. Only a record of the nodes that contain its different blocks is stored, because this is ...

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 ...

A key feature in Windows 2000 Server is DFS, short for Distributed File System. DFS is handy because it lets you point all network drives, no matter what server they physically occupy, to a single ...