For programming questions about Microsoft's Distributed File System (DFS). (For questions about depth-first search, use the [depth-first-search] tag.)
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Is there any difference between duplica and replica
I've read many papers and source code about distributed system and there are many "duplica"s and "replica"s. It seems having the same meaning.
Is there any difference between these two words?

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How to use the index property of the DfsrIdRecordInfo WMI class for pagination of WMI queries
edit: Should I have posted this on serverfault instead? There is not even a dfs-r category on stackoverflow, but I thought this was more of a scripting\programming question. Let me know if I should put this on serverfault instead.
I attempted to…

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IIS6 virtual directory access error 401 on DFS (Win 2003) file system depending on ACTIVE DFS node
On a Windows 2003 IIS 6 webserver, with a virtual directory, pointing to a Windows 2003 DFS folder (2 DFS server nodes) I get 401 access error for the Anonymous user. prompting to enter user name, password.
If on the web server I open up the DFS…

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How to find the server hosting a file in a Windows DFS with Java?
I want to get the Active Directory site of a hosting a file given the UNC path. The LDAP tree is kind of big and contains multiple domains and sub-domains. What I was doing was parsing the path and obtaining the machine name. From there, I can get…

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Use PrincipalSearcher to get DFS shares
I am trying to adapt code from VB to C# in a Windows form. I'm still trying to get a handle on the DFS idea in general, and how to manipulate it from a Windows form.
The VB uses the GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") function to search the Active…

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hadoop hdfs migration from cdh3 to cdh4
I have two hadoop clusters, My target is to use hadoop -cp to copy all the hdfs files from cluster1 to cluster2
Cluster1:
Hadoop 0.20.2-cdh3u4
Cluster2:
Hadoop 2.0.0-cdh4.1.1
Now, even just running dfs -ls command against cluster1 remotely on…

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Distributed File System Replication
We have large source of data that currently is being replicated on multiple servers through our own services. Data size is around 10TB and has millions of folders/files. Data size increases daily by 10-20GB. OS is Windows Server 2008 R2.
We are…

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how do I skip files and the directories that contain them with the skip directive in msdeploy?
We are deploying a website to a DFS share. DFS creates shortcut files with the name .DFSFolderLink.lnk in various locations. Admins on the box do not have rights to delete this shortcut file. So if any exist I need to exclude them from deployment,…

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DFS and SMB(jcifs) Issue in java
We are trying to create directory on DFS Share using jcifs in java.
DFS on server1 :
DOMAIN/Root/path1 from server1 smb store
DOMAIN/Root/path2 from server2 smb store
while creating directory on from…

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Strange behavior with Process.Start and dfsdiag.exe
DfsDiag.exe is located by default in C:\windows\system32. I try to start a process for it with Process.Start but I always seem to get the error The system cannot find the file specified.
I don't seem to have the problem with anything else so far.
I…

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Lucene index and Windows DFS replication
I want to replicate Lucene index on my web servers periodically. Apart from Solr, can I setup DFS replication on my Windows 2008 servers and use that to replicate my indexes over my load balanced web servers? Will that approach work or I will have…

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How to extract a list of DFS-shares where a specific server is registed as TargetPath?
I would like to get a list of DFS-Shares, where a specific server is registered as the TargetPath.
I have been trying to get this by the following code
`$DFSPath = "\\DFSpath"
$DFSNFolders = Get-DfsnFolder $DFSPath
foreach($DFSNFolder in…

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Get DFS Namespace Target Folders inside folders with no target recursively
DFS namespace (e.x. "\my.domain.com\NS1") with folders that don't have a target:
"\\my.domain.com\NS1\target1\" > Target: "\\myserver.my.domain.com\target1_share\"
"\\my.domain.com\NS1\folder\" > No target
"\\my.domain.com\NS1\folder\target2\" >…

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How to access the Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) hosted on an EC2 from AWS lambda function?
Actually, I've Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) hosted on an EC2, so I want to read all the files from a specific path in DFS. And this thing I want to achieve through lambda function.
I do have the following information:
file_path:…

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Java accessing files in a DFS filesystem via URL
We are testing a system in our development environment where we are moving file system to DFS leaves. Everything is working fine except for when images are trying to be accessed via a URL instead of a UNC path (For previewing images - they show up…

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