Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Distributed File System (DFS) is a set of client and server services that allow an organization using Microsoft Windows servers to organize many distributed SMB file shares into a distributed file system. DFS provides location transparency and redundancy to improve data availability in the face of failure or heavy load by allowing shares in multiple different locations to be logically grouped under one folder, or DFS root. Microsoft's DFS is referred to interchangeably as 'DFS' and 'Dfs' by Microsoft and is unrelated to the DCE Distributed File System, which held the 'DFS' trademark but was discontinued in 2005. It is called "SMB/CIFS" in some contexts, such as the Open Source OpenSolaris kernel space project. It is also called "MS-DFS" or "MSDFS" in other contexts, e.g. in the Samba user space project.

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