DFS
is a distributed file system used to provide common environment for users to
access files and folders even when they are shared in different servers
physically.
There
are two types of DFS domain DFS and Stand alone DFS. We cannot provide
redundancy for stand alone DFS in case of failure. Domain DFS is used in a
domain environment which can be accessed by /domain name/root1 (root 1 is DFS
root name). Stand alone DFS can be used in workgroup environment which can be
accessed through /server name/root1 (root 1 is DFS root name). Both the cases
we need to create DFS root (Which appears like a shared folder for end users)
and DFS links (A logical link which is pointing to the server where the folder
is physically shared)
The maximum number of Dfs roots per server is 1.
The
maximum numbers of Dfs root replicas are 31.
The
maximum number of Dfs roots per domain is unlimited.
The
maximum number of Dfs links or shared folders in a Dfs root is 1,000