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Foil 130 Network File System

From Introduction to Networking Technologies CPS640 MultiMedia and Networking -- Spring Semester 1998. by Roman Markowski
AFS - Andrew File System
  • originally developed at Carnegie Mellon
  • designed to provide reliable file services in distributed environment
  • can be viewed as enhanced NFS
DFS - Distributed File System
  • addresses better performance, replication, caching, security, locking
  • designed around the client-server model
  • cached File System
  • it supports file system greater than 2GB
  • conceptually, DFS is enhanced AFS

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