Abstraction in Databricks that presents underlying storage, ADLS Gen2 for example, as a file system.
Also called Databricks File System.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains DBFS in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Databricks
Analytics platform built on Apache Spark where data is processed in notebooks; Unity Catalog is the governance model it recommends.
- General-purpose v1
The older storage account kind (
Storage), which lacks access tiers, Archive and premium file shares and retires on 13 October 2026. Converting to ZRS requires first upgrading to GPv2, a one-way change. - ADLS Gen2
Short for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2: a standard GPv2 account with hierarchical namespace turned on, so analytics workloads get true directories and POSIX-style ACLs.
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
Related terms
- Compute log delivery
A compute setting under Advanced > Logging that copies logs from the driver, the workers and the event stream to a chosen destination every five minutes for as long as the compute runs. A Unity Catalog volume is the preferred destination; DBFS also works.