It was designed as an alternative to the Apache Hadoop Distributed File System ( HDFS ), intended to deliver better performance and cost-efficiency for large-scale processing clusters.
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The number of nodes and processing tasks assigned for a specific application can be variable or fixed depending on the hardware, software, communications, and distributed file system architecture.
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In distributed file systems a link log was a method of recording data in which a record is created and added to the proper log when updating a transaction.
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Also called distributed file systems these file systems rely on redirection to distributed systems, therefore latency and scalability can affect file access depending on where the target systems reside.
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GFS2 differs from distributed file systems ( such as InterMezzo, or GlusterFS ) because GFS2 allows all nodes to have direct concurrent access to the same shared block storage.
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ExtremeZ-IP links Macs to Microsoft's Distributed File System ( Microsoft ) ( DFS ) and, with the optional ShadowConnect, to Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service ( VSS ) snapshots.
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The core of Apache Hadoop consists of a storage part, known as Hadoop Distributed File System ( HDFS ), and a processing part which is a MapReduce programming model.
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An Open Source Distributed File System that can be used behind an HTTP server ( Cherokee etc . ) to implement a highly scalable DFS for storing images, etc.
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Distributed file systems differ in their performance, mutability of content, handling of concurrent writes, handling of permanent or temporary loss of nodes or storage, and their policy of storing content.
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In MapReduce-based systems, data is normally stored on a distributed system, such as Hadoop Distributed File System ( HDFS ), and different data blocks might be stored in different machines.
