Abstract: This paper provides an overview of existing distributed file systems, discussing their advantages and limitations in the context of modern environments such as distributed computing systems.

Neel Somani, a researcher and technologist from the University of California, Berkeley, has seen firsthand how big traffic spikes can trip up even top tech companies. They use distributed systems, ...

The current distributed shared storage is based on PFS deployment, and due to its design characteristics, it cannot fully utilize the performance of distributed storage. It is unknown whether other ...

The proliferation of small files in distributed file systems poses significant challenges that affect both storage efficiency and operational performance. Modern systems, such as Hadoop Distributed ...

DeepSeek AI recently released its Fire-Flyer File System (3FS) as open source, presenting a distributed storage solution specifically engineered for the high-throughput, low-latency demands of ...

File systems have been around for as long as computers have been invented. Over the past 40 years, what used to be a little invention on a thinking machine has grown into an enormous industry with ...