Concurrent access to data from all nodes in a cluster and the high availability built into some distributed file systems are a couple of reasons why they are ideal for a cluster environment.

集群中所有节点对数据的并发访问，以及某些分布式文件系统所内置的高可用性，是它们成为集群环境理想选择的两方面原因。

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So, are distributed file systems a third layer on top of the two we have mentioned?

那么，分布式文件系统是否是我们所提及的两层之上的第三层呢？

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These features allow AFS to be known as the granddaddy of distributed file systems even after so many years of development.

这些特性使得AFS被公认为是分布式文件系统的鼻祖，虽然AFS已经开发了很多年。

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Microsoft's Distributed Systems group utilized a new file system architecture, dubbed Flat Datacenter Storage, over a full bisection bandwidth network to burn through the competition.

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The a significant number of organizations could probably make quite a bit of hay from using Splunk, a distributed software for distilling and analyzing machine data that can be applied to data in file systems, in databases, or in Hadoop clusters.

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