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Distributed File System Replication. The Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) service is a state-based, multimaster replication engine that supports replication scheduling and bandwidth throttling. DFSR uses a compression algorithm known as remote differential compression (RDC).
A DFS root can only exist on a server version of Windows (from Windows NT 4.0 and up) and OpenSolaris (in kernel space) or a computer running Samba (in user space .) The Enterprise and Datacenter Editions of Windows Server can host multiple DFS roots on the same server. Standalone DFS namespace allow for a DFS root that exists only on the local computer, and thus does not use Active Directory. 2  A Standalone DFS can only be accessed on the computer on which it is created. 3  It does not offer any fault tolerance and cannot be linked to any other DFS.