For programming questions about Microsoft's Distributed File System (DFS). (For questions about depth-first search, use the [depth-first-search] tag.)
Questions tagged [microsoft-distributed-file-system]
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Is there any distributed file system which runs on Windows except Hadoop?
I'm desperate to find any DFS which supports Windows. The only such DFS is Hadoop HDFS but it's very hard to deploy it other big number of Windows machines because it requires Cygwin + SSH.
Almost all DFS systems work only on Linux and only one…

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How do I setup WebDeploy on Windows 2003 / IIS6?
Webdeploy is an alternative to WebDav, FTP, and FrontPage extensions. It also acts as an alternative to DFS for replicating websites. I found instructions for configuring Windows 2008, but I'm unclear how to set up 2003 especially when multiple…

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How can I get an active UNC Path in DFS programatically
Given a DFS path how would I know what is the active path it is currently on programatically.
For exmaple I have 2 Servers shares as "\\Server1\Folder\" and "\\Server2\Folder\" and it has DFS turned on so it can be accessed on…

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Open a Micrsoft DFS share in golang using smb2
I have a dfs share on Windows server 2012. I can open the share and read files from another system in a windows file explorer with a path like: \\dfsserver\usernamepace\Tom\go.png. However, using golang's smb2 package by…

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SQLite backup using Windows DFS Replication
I have an application that use SQLite for storage, and I'm wondering whether it is safe to use Windows DFS Replication to backup the database file to a second server which has a cold standby instance of the application installed.
Potentially…

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How do I determine the physical file server for a DFS path?
Given a DFS path, how can I programatically determine which physical file server it maps to?

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Should DFS be used to sync wwwroot?
I'm wondering if it's a good idea to use DFS to sync content across a web farm? Does anyone have any experience of this? We've used Robocopy in the past but found it a little patchy and clunky.
Essentially we want to avoid having to make ten changes…

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Mount DFS to Docker container in Windows 10
I have a DFS network drive that I would like to mount to my docker container in Windows 10. But I cannot make it work using any of the "half" suggestions on Google.
# First try
docker run -v \\my\network\storage\:/my_container_path/…

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Unable to deploy a Ceph manager daemon with ceph-deploy: Error EACCES: access denied
I am trying to set up a Ceph storage cluster using the quick start guide found here: http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/start/quick-ceph-deploy/
When I try to deploy a manager daemon using this command:
ceph-deploy mgr create enickel7
I get this…

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Get DFS Server name and local path from UNC path
I'm working on Windows Server 2012 which comes by default with various DFS CmdLets.
What I'm trying to do is get the ComputerName and the local path of a specific UNC share, that is hosted by other DFS servers (Win Srv 2008 R2) on the domain.
An…

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FileSystemWatcher InternalBufferOverflow
I am getting an exception System.IO.Internal.BufferOverflowException when I am trying to monitor a folder on network path(DFS - Distributed File System): To many changes at once . It works fine when FileSystemWatcher is monitoring local/network path…

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Using flex for play video from windows share
I need to play video file from windows share inside corporate network. Share is used because it replicates on other corporate sites, so every user can download video from it local storage(We use DFS for it).
Video need to be played on our web…

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What's the point of SeaweedFS File Store?
According to GitHub, SeaweedFS is intended to be a simple and highly scalable distributed file system which enables you to store and fetch billions of files, fast. However, I don't understand the point of SeaweedFS Filer since it requires an…

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Graph Cycle Detection with Java
I'm studying cycle detection in DAGs, and I've implemented my version of the algorithm using DFS, here is the code;
public class DFS {
public static boolean hasCycle(Graph graph) {
for (Vertex vertex : graph.getVertices()) {
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No FileSystem for scheme: wasb error in Hadoop 2.7
I am trying to establish the connection between hadoop and Azure storage.
I have added the property in core-site.xml mentioned here: Link, still getting the error
No FileSystem for scheme: wasb
Any help is appreciated!

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