Distributed File Systems
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File systems that store data across multiple networked machines, providing transparency so clients access remote files as if they were local. Trade off between consistency, availability, and performance. Examples include NFS, HDFS, GlusterFS, and Ceph.
Key Properties
Related
- VFS (Virtual File System) (distributed FS accessed through VFS)
- Replication (distributed FS replicate data for durability)