Creating and Reading Files
Let's understand how clients can create files and read data from files in a distributed file system.
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The clients can create and read files from the distributed file system using a GFS client library linked to the application that abstracts some implementation details.
For example, the applications can operate based on byte offsets of files. The client library can translate these byte offsets to the associated chunk index and communicates with the manager to retrieve the chunk handle for the provided chunk index and the location of associated chunk servers. Finally, It contacts the ...