Improving the Performance of Read Operations in Distributed File System

Distributed file systems are used in distributed systems to support scalable storage and to enable the parallel and distributed processing of data. Sharing the data stored in the distributed file system among authorized users is a major requirement of the distributed file system. Popular distributed file systems use session semantics to share the data among the users. In this paper, we have proposed a read algorithm developed based on speculative semantics which permits the read process to read the updates done by the concurrent write process from the distributed file system provided such a reading does not affect data consistency.