TY - JOUR AU - Lovenish Saluja,, Aditi Khazanchi, Akshay Kanwar, PY - 2013/10/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - AN OVERVIEW OF DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM JF - International Journal of Engineering and Computer Science JA - int. jour. eng. com. sci VL - 2 IS - 10 SE - Articles DO - UR - http://ijecs.in/index.php/ijecs/article/view/2076 SP - AB - <p>This paper presents a distributed file system that is a client/server -based application that allows clients to access and process data stored on the server as if it were on their own computer. The purpose of a distributed file system (DFS) is to allow users of physically distributed computers to share data and storage resources by using a common file system. It consists of an introduction of DFS, features of DFS, its background, its concepts, design goals and consideration. It also emphasized on Classical file system: Sun network file system and Andrew file system and a brief study of Google file system.</p> ER -