A parallel file system is a type of distributed file system that distributes file data across multiple servers and provides for concurrent access by multiple tasks of a parallel application.
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GlusterFS relies on an elastic coherency problems, and allowing GlusterFS to scale up to several petabytes on commodity hardware by avoiding bottlenecks that normally affect more tightly coupled distributed file systems.
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While it is possible to implement a distributed file system using the DCE underpinnings by adding filenames to the CDS and defining the appropriate ACLs on them, this is not user-friendly.
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False sharing is an inherent artifact of automatically synchronized cache protocols and can also exist in environments such as distributed file system or databases, but current prevalence is limited to RAM caches.
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Red Hat bought Inktank Storage in April 2014, which is the company behind the Ceph distributed file system, and re-branded GlusterFS-based Red Hat Storage Server to " Red Hat Gluster Storage ".
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Version vectors or variants are used to track updates in many distributed file systems, such as Coda ( file system ) and Ficus, and are the main data structure behind optimistic replication.
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The Andrew File System heavily influenced Version 4 of Sun Microsystems'popular Distributed File System ( DFS ) was adopted by the Open Software Foundation in 1989 as part of their Distributed Computing Environment.
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MapR-FS is a distributed file system that is the basis of the MapR Converged Platform, with capabilities for distributed file storage, a NoSQL database with multiple APIs, and an integrated message streaming system.
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Support for people with disabilities was improved over Windows NT 4.0 with a number of new Distributed File System ( a file system that supports sharing of files ) and fault-redundant storage volumes.
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Distributed file systems in clouds such as GFS and HDFS rely on central or master servers or nodes ( Master for GFS and NameNode for HDFS ) to manage the metadata and the load balancing.
