A high performance and low cost distributed file system

Abstract

Recently, the concept of distributed file system has been widely used in many Internet applications. A distributed file system integrates many file servers on the network and becomes an efficiency file system with large storage space. Users can access their files anytime and anywhere. However, the cost for building and maintaining these storage systems is high for many small enterprises and organizations. Thus, a reliable file system with low cost and large storage space is necessary for many users. In this paper, we proposed a low cost distributed file system. The proposed file system stores the file replications in different network area. We also design a load detection module in the proposed system. The module will detect the load of each file servers and improve the overall system performance.