Background Naming and Transparency Remote File Access Stateful versus Stateless Service File Replication An Example: AFS To explain the naming mechanism that provides location transparency and independence To describe the various methods for accessing distributed files To contrast stateful and stateless distributed file servers To show how replication of files on different machines in a distributed file system is a useful redundancy for improving availability To introduce the Andrew file system (AFS) as an example of a distributed file system.
