I work for a SMB and didn't really have the benefit of a full test environment. We had a SBS2k3 server that acted great for us for a while, but we have started outgrowing it and I needed to move ...

I have 0 experience with DFS, other than I've used servers that share out files via DFS.<BR><BR>I currently have one file server and am looking at getting another one, possibly two servers.<BR><BR ...

A DFS makes it possible to restrict access to the file system, depending on access lists or capabilities on both the servers and the clients, depending on how the protocol is designed. Also, since the ...

The processing of massive numbers of small files is a challenge in the design of distributed file systems. Currently, the combined-block-storage approach is prevalent. However, the approach employs ...

The processing of massive numbers of small files is a challenge in the design of distributed file systems. Currently, the combined-block-storage approach is prevalent. However, the approach employs ...