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2.10.1 Main Points
A
Distributed File System
provides transparent access to files stored on a remote disk
Themes:
Failures - what happens when server crashes but client doesn't? or vice versa
Performance
Caching - use caching at both the clients and the server to improve performance
Cache Coherence - how do we make sure each client sees most up to date copy of file?
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Ian Wakeman 2005-02-22