tailieunhanh - Operating System Concepts - Chapter 17: Distributed-File Systems

Background Naming and Transparency Remote File Access Stateful versus Stateless Service File Replication An Example: AFS To explain the naming mechanism that provides location transparency and independence To describe the various methods for accessing distributed files To contrast stateful and stateless distributed file servers To show how replication of files on different machines in a distributed file system is a useful redundancy for improving availability To introduce the Andrew file system (AFS) as an example of a distributed file system. | Chapter 17 Distributed-File Systems Chapter 17 Distributed-File Systems Background Naming and Transparency Remote File Access Stateful versus Stateless Service File Replication An Example AFS Operating System Concepts - 7th Edition Apr 4 2005 Silberschatz Galvin and Gagne 2005 Chapter Objectives To explain the naming mechanism that provides location transparency and independence To describe the various methods for accessing distributed files To contrast stateful and stateless distributed file servers To show how replication of files on different machines in a distributed file system is a useful redundancy for improving availability To introduce the Andrew file system AFS as an example of a distributed file system Operating System Concepts - 7th Edition Apr 4 2005 Silberschatz Galvin and Gagne .