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The document discusses distributed file systems (DFS). It describes the file service architecture including flat file service, directory service and client module. It provides details on the responsibilities and operations of each module like lookup, addname, unname. The document also discusses access control and hierarchic file systems in distributed implementations.

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The document discusses distributed file systems (DFS). It describes the file service architecture including flat file service, directory service and client module. It provides details on the responsibilities and operations of each module like lookup, addname, unname. The document also discusses access control and hierarchic file systems in distributed implementations.

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DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS

(DFS)
DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS

• Including
1.Introduction
2.File Service Architecture
3.Case Study: Sun NFS
1. Introduction

1. Characteristics of file system


2. Distributed File system requirements
2. File service architecture
 providing access to files is obtained by structuring
the file service as three components:
1. Flat file service
2. Directory service
3. Client module.
 The relevant modules and their relationship is
shown in Figure
File Service Architecture
Figure 8.5 Lookup
AddName
UnName
Client computer Server computer
GetNames

Application Application Directory service


program program

Flat file service

Client module

Read
Write
Create
Delete
GetAttributes
SetAttributes
• Responsibilities of various modules can
be defined as follows:
1. Flat file service

• Concerned with the implementation of


operations on the contents of file.

• Unique File Identifiers (UFIDs) are used to


refer to files in all requests for flat file service
operations.
Flat file service operations
1. Read
2. Write
3. Create
4. Delete
5. GetAttributes
6. SetAttributes
1. Read(FileId, i, n) :
Reads a sequence of up to n items from a file
starting at item i.
2. Write(FileId, i, Data) :

Write a sequence of Data to a file, starting


at item i.
3. Create() :
Creates a new file of length0 and
delivers a UFID for it.
4. Delete(FileId) :Removes the file from the
file store.
5. GetAttributes(FileId) : Returns the file
attributes for the file.

6. SetAttributes(FileId, Attr) :Sets the file


attributes.
2. Directory service

• Provides mapping between text names


for the files and their UFIDs.
• Clients may obtain the UFID of a file by
quoting its text name to directory service.
• Directory service supports functions to
add new files to directories.
Directory service operations
1. Lookup
2. AddName
3. UnName
4. GetNames
Directory service operations

1. Lookup(Dir, Name) :
Locates the text name in the directory and
returns the relevant UFID.
If Name is not in the directory, throws an
exception.
2. AddName(Dir, Name, File) :If Name is not in
the directory, adds(Name,File) to the
directory and updates the
file’s attribute record.

• If Name is already in the directory: throws an


exception.
3. UnName(Dir, Name) :If Name is in the
directory, the entry containing Name is
removed from the directory.

• If Name is not in the directory: throws an


exception.
4. GetNames(Dir, Pattern):Returns all the text
names in the directory that match the regular
expression Pattern.
3. Client module

• It runs on each computer and provides


integrated service (flat file and directory)
as a single API to application programs.
• It holds information about the network
locations of flat-file and directory server
processes.
Access control

• In distributed implementations, access rights


checks have to be performed at the server .
Hierarchic file system

• A hierarchic file system consists of a


number of directories arranged in a tree
structure.
File Group

• A file group is a collection of files that can


be located on any server.
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