Just about a year ago, I first mentioned TidyFS, a new, small distributed file system under development by Microsoft Research. Later this week at the Usenix '11 conference, Microsoft researchers ...

Point one already has solution via mechanics already in modern file system (eg. symlink). Point two isn't a point but a symptom of a decentralized architecture [yay for the US legal system].

You can move seldom-used files to offline storage, but in Windows 2000, you have another option when server hard drives begin to fill up: you can build a Distributed File System (DFS) tree.

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Today marks the availability of Alluxio 1.0, the first major release of the memory-centric, virtual distributed file system formerly known as Tachyon. The graduate of UC Berkeley’s AMPLab is already ...

I looked at some distributed file systems but it seems they are all geared towards big cloud data except maybe BlueFS/EnsemBlue, but except some papers I didn't find anything about it.

There is much value in separating storage from compute, particular for cloud database deployments. To this end, Alibaba has targeted low latency and high availability with a newly developed ...

If you have multiple clients writing into a single file, IME solves this by essentially having a distributed synchronized clock across the nodes and IO just flows into the IME system and is sent very ...

Basically, IPFS is a peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed system for storing, accessing and sharing files, websites, applications and data.