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.

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 ...

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Abstract: Storage network protocols such as NVMe-oF operate below the file system layer. Therefore, even when NVMe-oF allows storage volumes to be shared across the network, compute nodes cannot ...

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