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.

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.

A key feature in Windows 2000 Server is DFS, short for Distributed File System. DFS is handy because it lets you point all network drives, no matter what server they physically occupy, to a single ...

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 ...

Google has developed its own file system (called GFS), designed to turn many low-cost servers and hard drives into reliable storage for the masses of data it uses.

Network Appliance’s acquisition of Spinnaker is the precursor to the mainstream adoption of distributed file systems in 2004 and 2005 as an alternative to single-file system architectures.At ...

IBM is shipping a set of software and hardware that's designed to make multivendor storage-area networks look like local file systems to servers, although the technology initially supports only ...

SaunaFS 5.0 is the industry's first on-premises distributed file system engineered for true exabyte scale, purpose-built to unlock the exceptional density and efficiency of Host-Managed Shingled ...

PeerGFS enables a distributed file system to be created across mixed storage systems that include Windows, NetApp Data ONTAP, DellEMC Isilon/VNX/Unity, Nutanix Files, S3, and Azure Blob, with ...

You can now find it on GitHub. The default Hadoop file system is called Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). CEO Konrad Feldman says Quantcast started using Hadoop in 2006.