{"id":2598,"date":"2015-04-13T08:28:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/kb\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2015-04-16T10:28:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T10:28:41","slug":"what-is-dfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/kb\/what-is-dfs\/","title":{"rendered":"What is DFS, Distributed File System or System Distributed File?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, we are going to see what exactly DFS is. It is accessible in Microsoft environment under Windows Server. And the DFS acronym stands for Distributed File System or System Distributed File.<\/p>\n

This system allows hierarchical file structure for shared files on different servers of logical network. It is used to reference a set of shares that will make available uniformly and to centralize all the space available on this set of shares.<\/p>\n

With DFS, the end user does not display the name of the server on which it access read data, it is completely transparent. The advantage is that if the server has to change because of a failure or due to the developmental work, the path will remain the same.<\/p>\n

Behind the same DFS path we can hide multiple servers with the same data with synchronization between these servers through DFSR (i.e. DFS Replication). This approach is very useful for high-availability of data and load balancing.<\/p>\n

Of course, it is possible to use a path to a server (1 1), where each server will host different data.<\/p>\n

Know that the DFS is increasingly present, now it is even used for SYSVOL replication on a domain between domain controllers.<\/p>\n

Prerequisites<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Active directory and DNS<\/strong><\/a><\/span> are two important prerequisites for DFS; these two are core requirements for DFS with replication and network connectivity throughout DFS root.<\/p>\n

Root folder and target<\/strong><\/p>\n

When speaking about DFS, three terms are important to remember and understand the workflow: DFS root, folder and target.<\/p>\n