The document discusses an initiative data prefetching scheme for distributed file systems in cloud computing, which allows storage servers to proactively fetch data based on historical I/O access patterns while minimizing client machine involvement. It highlights the benefits of this approach, particularly in improving I/O performance for configuration-limited client machines. Additionally, a comparison to existing systems and their drawbacks, such as network delay and limited mobile device capabilities, is provided, alongside advantages like better use of bandwidth and reduced file operations.