1. Managing Shared File Systems
  2. About Shared File System Management

1 About Shared File System Management

This chapter includes a brief description of shared files systems and includes information about the types of shared file systems that are provided in Oracle Linux 8 and how they're used. The chapters of this guide describe how to manage each of the shared file systems types that are described in this chapter.

For information about managing local file systems in Oracle Linux, see Oracle Linux 8: Managing Local File Systems.

A shared file system is a type of file system that enables sevarl users to access the same files across different operating systems or over a network at the same time. The shared file system approach provides many benefits. Most notably, using shared file systems can improve performance and scalability and can reduce the time that administrators spend managing data.

Oracle Linux8 includes support for several file systems types. The following distributed and shared file systems are discussed in length in their respective sections: