More Remote Filesystems

• DFS (the real one)

  • part of DCE (Distributed Computing Environment)
  • AFS on steroids
  • seemed to be the future a few years ago
    • no longer
  • available for linux ?
  • very complex

• GFS

  • commercial, linux only

• Cluster file systems

  • GPFS, ...

• Strange ones

  • OIF
    • Oracle Internet FS, stores files in DB
  • WebDAV

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