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Improving Performance: Client-side Caching

Explore how client-side caching improves performance in distributed file systems like NFS by storing file data and metadata locally. Understand the benefits of buffering writes and the challenges of maintaining cache consistency across multiple clients.

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Distributed file systems are good for a number of reasons, but sending all read and write requests across the network can lead to a big performance problem: the network generally isn’t that fast, especially as compared to local memory or disk.

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Thus, another problem: how can we improve the ...