Trends in Distributed File Systems: Tu Tran
Trends in Distributed File Systems: Tu Tran
Trends in Distributed File Systems: Tu Tran
Presented by:
Tu Tran
Outline
New Hardware
Scalability
Wide Area Networking
Mobile Users
Fault Tolerance
Multimedia
Interesting Research Papers/Projects
New Hardware
Advantage:
• Gain in performance
• Simplify file system structure
New Hardware (cont’d)
Disadvantage:
• Power fails, all files stored are lost. However,
current technology allows to back up
continuously files on tapes or other storage
media.
» Real-time support
Name space
» WWW commerce
» Video on demand
» Distributed Virtual Environments
Economies of scale
» IP phones
Mobile Users
» Isolated
» Wireless
» Wired
Mobile Users (cont’d)
» Hardware
» Communication infrastructure
» Software
» Data – File replication
Fault Tolerance (cont’d)
» ATM machines
» Microwaves
» Phone system (IP mode)
Multimedia
Video-on-demand
[4] http://www.gridbus.org/papers/gridtech.pdf
References (cont’d)
[5] MFS: an Adaptive Distributed File System
for Mobile Hosts
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/Spinglass/public_pdfs/mfs.pdf
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10397/33047/01550932.pdf?tp=&arnumb
er=1550932&isnumber=33047