This paper presents DSF - a new serverless distributed file system, aimed to improve scalability. Scalability is obtained by moving traditional file system functionality to lower (disk) levels and by using a dynamic file management assignment policy to improve load balancing.
By: Zvi Dubitzky, Israel Gold, Ealan Henis, Julian Satran, Dafna Sheinwald
Published in: H-0141 in 2002
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