Symbiotic wide-area file system and method

摘要

In one embodiment, the invention provides a method and apparatus for a wide area file system, including: creating a peer-to-peer wide-area file system that allows read and write sharing of data. In another embodiment, the invention provides a method and apparatus for a wide area file system, including using per-file replication to achieve high availability and performance in the wide-area distributed file system.