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Old 09-16-2007, 10:26 PM   #1
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Question What is Remote Filesystem ?


Hi Friends,
I am learning CLUSTERING in LINUX. I came accross a term called REMOTE FILE-SYSTEM. Can anyone please put some light on it.
 
Old 09-16-2007, 10:42 PM   #2
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A remote file system, is a file system thats NOT on your computer. Any requests to the file system will essentially be sent over the network, handled by whatever actually stores the files, and the result returned.
 
  


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