If we go by most definitions of a distributed system, say Lamport’s, it still is. It’s networked, asynchronous, has group membership and replication. Provides l

If we go by most definitions of a distributed system, say Lamport’s, it still is. It’s networked, asynchronous, has group membership and replication. Provides liveness guarantees with a coordinator for requests and locks. GFS/NFS predates many modern data stores, had SPOF, and are considered important contributions in distributed computing.