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Tales from the Trenches: A System Admin's Guide to Managing Distributed File Storage

One of the most dangerous assumptions a sysadmin can make is that the inherent replication in a distributed file storage system is a substitute for a backup. Re...

2025-10-24

Navigating the Trade-offs: Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance in Distributed File Storage

Availability means that every request received by a non-failing node in a distributed file storage system must result in a response, regardless of the current s...

2025-10-23