The Andrew File System (AFS) is a distributed file system which uses a set of trusted servers to present a homogeneous, location-transparent file name...
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Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer...
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A clustered file system (CFS) is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering...
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directly from an older version of Andrew File System (AFS-2) and offers many similar features. The InterMezzo file system was inspired by Coda. Coda has...
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The Minix file system is the native file system of the Minix operating system. It was written from scratch by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the 1980s and aimed...
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Mahadev Satyanarayanan (section Andrew File System)
computing systems from the cloud to the mobile edge. His work on the Andrew File System (AFS) was recognized with the ACM Software System Award in 2016...
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In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access. A local file system is a capability of...
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File System (BFS) is the native file system for the BeOS. In the Linux kernel, it is referred to as "BeFS" to avoid confusion with Boot File System....
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Apple File System (APFS) is a proprietary file system developed and deployed by Apple Inc. for macOS Sierra (10.12.4) and later, iOS 10.3, tvOS 10.2,...
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to more thorough information on file systems. Many older operating systems support only their one "native" file system, which does not bear any name apart...
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