Lecture Operating systems: A concept-based approach: Chapter 20 - Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere
Lecture Operating systems: A concept-based approach: Chapter 20 - Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere
A distributed file system stores files in several nodes of a distributed system, so a process and a file used by it might be in different nodes of a system. Performance and reliability of a distributed file system are determined by the manner in which it organizes access to a required file. This chapter discusses different methods of organizing access to files and directories located in various nodes of a system, and techniques such as file caching and stateless file servers that are used to ens