METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM IN A CLOUD NETWORK USING FILE CHUNKING AND REPLICATION

摘要

Various embodiments provide a method and apparatus of providing a distributed network file system in a cloud network that provides performance guarantees in cloud storage that are independent of the accessed files and the access locations. A client's file system is provisioned using a file placement strategy that is based on client's access locations and determined maximum access bandwidths and does not require knowledge of file access patterns.