How to: Distributed Filesystems
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Network distributed filesystems.

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- [Ceph](https://ceph.com/en/) - Distributed object, block, and file storage platform. ([Source Code](https://github.com/ceph/ceph)) `LGPL-3.0` `C++`
- [DRBD](https://linbit.com/drbd/) - Distributed replicated storage system, implemented as a Linux kernel driver. ([Source Code](https://github.com/LINBIT/drbd)) `GPL-2.0` `C`
- [GlusterFS](https://www.gluster.org/) - Software-defined distributed storage that can scale to several petabytes, with interfaces for object, block and file storage. ([Source Code](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs)) `GPL-2.0/LGPL-3.0` `C`
- [Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS)](https://hadoop.apache.org/) - Distributed file system that provides high-throughput access to application data. ([Source Code](https://github.com/apache/hadoop)) `Apache-2.0` `Java`
- [JuiceFS](https://juicefs.com/) - Distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3. ([Source Code](https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs)) `Apache-2.0` `Go`
- [Kubo](https://github.com/ipfs/kubo) - Implementation of IPFS, a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. `Apache-2.0/MIT` `Go`
- [LeoFS](https://leo-project.net) - Highly available, distributed, replicated eventually consistent object/blob store. ([Source Code](https://github.com/leo-project/leofs)) `Apache-2.0` `Erlang`
- [Lustre](https://www.lustre.org/) - Parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. ([Source Code](https://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=summary)) `GPL-2.0` `C`
- [Minio](https://min.io/) - High-performance, S3 compatible object store built for large scale AI/ML, data lake and database workloads. ([Source Code](https://github.com/minio/minio)) `AGPL-3.0` `Go`
- [MooseFS](https://moosefs.com/) - Fault tolerant, network distributed file system. ([Source Code](https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs)) `GPL-2.0` `C`
- [OpenAFS](https://www.openafs.org/) - Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support. ([Source Code](https://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git;a=summary)) `IPL-1.0` `C`
- [Openstack Swift](https://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/) - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store. ([Source Code](https://opendev.org/openstack/swift)) `Apache-2.0` `Python`
- [Perkeep](https://perkeep.org/) - A set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data (previously Camlistore). ([Source Code](https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep)) `Apache-2.0` `C`
- [TahoeLAFS](https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs) - Secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, peer-to-peer distributed data store and distributed file system. ([Source Code](https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs)) `GPL-2.0` `Python`
- [XtreemFS](https://www.xtreemfs.org/) - Distributed, replicated and fault-tolerant file system for federated IT infrastructures.. ([Source Code](https://github.com/xtreemfs/xtreemfs)) `BSD-3-Clause` `Java`