PPT Slide
Fault Tolerance:
- down times are not well accepted by people in general. As distributed systems become more widespread, provisions for higher availability have to be incorporated into the design.
- Future:
- Backbone at a few Gbps and access bandwidth at 56Kbps.
Multimedia:
- new applications such as video-on-demand, audio files pose different demands on the design of a file system.
Trends in Distributed File Systems