... has many common concepts. We will now discuss some of the concepts of Distributed File System. They include Naming and Transparency, File Replication, Remote File Access, Caching, Fault Tolerance, Security and many more. We will briefly go through some of the main common concepts of Distributed File System before embarking on Network File System. Concepts are as follows: * File Replication File replication is a useful idleness for improving accessibility of files on different machines. This feature also benefits performance as well. The basic procedure of file replication is that various replications of the same file should sit on independent machines. In this way, one replica is not affected by other replicas sitting on other computers. You can, however, hide the details of replication from users. In other words, they won't know the replication details and it is also advantageous. Naming scheme is responsible to map a replicated file name to a ...

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