Course: Distributed operating systems

Distributed File Systems

Distributed File Systems

• Services of file servers
  Type of file servers
  Design issues of DFSs
  Architecture of file systems

• Directory Service
  Naming of files
  Directory service operations
  Access control of files
  Placement, location and relocation of files
• Replicated File Services
  File replication approaches
• Transaction Service
  Transaction service operations
  Concurrency control
  Failure recovery methods
• File Service
  File service operations
  Operational properties of file systems
• Disk Service
  Disk service operations
  File storage
  Cache and file system