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1
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The design of large-scale, wide-area, read-write file storage systems poses which problems?

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load balancing, reliability, availability and security

2
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What is the primary purpose of basic DFS?

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Primary purpose of such basic DFS is to emulate the functionality of a non-distributed file system for programs running on multiple computers

3
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properties of a DFS

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Sharing Persistence
Distributed cache/replicas
Consistency maintenance

4
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List the key design issues for distributed file systems

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Effective use of client caching: achieve performance equal to or better than that of local file systems
Consistency maintenance between multiple cached client copies
Recovery after server or client failure
Scalability and high throughput for read/write operations