Security and reliability of distributed file systems

Abstract

Reliability and security are properties which are required by any computing system. This paper will describe modern trends in distributed file systems (DFS) oriented on reliability and security in these systems. The first part will present the definition of distributed systems and distributed file systems, with a focus on reliability and security in these systems, then describe traditional DFS like AFS, NFS and Coda. The second part of this paper will describe new trends in DFS with a focus on reliability and security.