State-of-the-Art In Internet File Systems

[Le Chaud Lapin]

It has been, frighteningly, 15 years since I did a thorough survey of
Internet-based file systems.

I am familiar with AFS, NFS, etc..but it's 2010, so a lot might have
changed.

Right now, in 2010, what is state-of-the-art in Internet-based file
systems?

I would be particular interested in something Windows-based.

Please note that, by "file system", I mean a real, Internet-based
distributed file system, like AFS or NFS, not something that might
eventually become a real Internet-based file system after few more
tweaks (WebDav).

Much thanks!

-Le Chaud Lapin-

[J.O. Aho]

Post by Le Chaud Lapin
It has been, frighteningly, 15 years since I did a thorough survey of
Internet-based file systems.

I really wouldn't call it "Internet-based", use "distributed file system" or
"network file system".

Post by Le Chaud Lapin
I am familiar with AFS, NFS, etc..but it's 2010, so a lot might have
changed.
Right now, in 2010, what is state-of-the-art in Internet-based file
systems?

pohmelfs and pNFS

http://www.ioremap.net/projects/pohmelfs
http://www.pnfs.com/

Both has redundancy.

Post by Le Chaud Lapin
I would be particular interested in something Windows-based.

If you think of microsoft product orientated, then it's samba with the newer
cifs protocol, but doubt it would be classed anywhere near state-of-the-art
distributed file system.