(1) For replication of files across the Internet, see IPFS. (2) A distributed file system is software that keeps track of files stored across multiple servers or networks. When data are requested, a ...

A new Windows NTLM relay attack called DFSCoerce has been discovered that uses MS-DFSNM, Microsoft's Distributed File System, to completely take over a Windows domain ...

In context: Microsoft introduced the original version of ReFS in 2012 alongside the enterprise-focused Windows Server 2012. At the time, the company stated that the new file system was intended to ...

A new Windows NTLM relay attack called DFSCoerce has been discovered that uses MS-DFSNM, Microsoft's Distributed File System, to completely take over a Windows domain.

The proliferation of small files in distributed file systems poses significant challenges that affect both storage efficiency and operational performance. Modern systems, such as Hadoop Distributed ...

The solution supports all CIFS- compliant storage and also implements support for the Microsoft Distributed File System, providing accelerated file access to users on the WAN.

Distributed File System replication does not offer file locking You may have read something about DFS replication in Server 2008. (DFS stands for Distributed File System or Distributed File Service.) ...

A key feature in Windows 2000 Server is DFS, short for Distributed File System. DFS is handy because it lets you point all network drives, no matter what server they physically occupy, to a single ...

Now, a few weeks ago I mentioned the improvements in the Distributed File System (DFS) with Windows Server 2003. Note, though, that it’s the “distributed” part (an application or service ...