You can move seldom-used files to offline storage, but in Windows 2000, you have another option when server hard drives begin to fill up: you can build a Distributed File System (DFS) tree.

Just about a year ago, I first mentioned TidyFS, a new, small distributed file system under development by Microsoft Research. Later this week at the Usenix '11 conference, Microsoft researchers ...

A key feature in Windows 2000 Server is DFS, short for Distributed File System. DFS is handy because it lets you point all network drives, no matter what server they physically occupy, to a single ...

Now, a few weeks ago I mentioned the improvements in the Distributed File System (DFS) with Windows Server 2003. Note, though, that it’s the “distributed” part (an application or service ...

I looked at some distributed file systems but it seems they are all geared towards big cloud data except maybe BlueFS/EnsemBlue, but except some papers I didn't find anything about it.

By Gary Olsen 02/22/2011 Distributed File System (DFS) has been around since Windows NT and comes in a variety of configurations and options.

PeerGFS enables a distributed file system to be created across mixed storage systems that include Windows, NetApp Data ONTAP, DellEMC Isilon/VNX/Unity, Nutanix Files, S3, and Azure Blob, with ...

(1) For replication of files across the Internet, see IPFS. (2) A distributed file system is software that keeps track of files stored across multiple servers or networks. When data are requested ...

But for now, the SAN File System supports only IBM’s own Enterprise Storage Server disk arrays plus servers running its AIX operating system and Windows 2000. IBM is trying to convince other ...