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 ...

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.

It's time to ditch File Replication Service and move completely to Distributed File System.

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 ...

Now, a few weeks ago I mentioned the improvements in the Distributed File System (DFS) with Windows Server 2003. Note, though, that it’s the “distributed” part (an application or service ...

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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.

Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System ...