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Encrypted Files

CryFS – cryptographic filesystem for the cloud

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

CryFS encrypts your files, so you can safely store them anywhere.

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Encrypted Files

Cryptomator – multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of files in the cloud

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily, so you can safely upload it to your favourite cloud service.

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Encrypted Files

EncFS – FUSE-based cryptographic filesystem

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs in userspace, using the FUSE library for the filesystem interface.

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Encrypted Files

securefs – filesystem in userspace (FUSE) with transparent encryption

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

securefs is a filesystem in userspace (FUSE) with transparent encryption (when writing) and decryption (when reading).

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SeaweedFS – fast distributed storage system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

SeaweedFS is a simple and highly scalable distributed file system to store billions of files, and to serve the files fast.

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JuiceFS – distributed POSIX file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3. It’s free and open source software written in Go.

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GlusterFS – software scalable network filesystem

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients.

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Lustre – parallel file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Lustre is a massively, global, parallel distributed file system, generally used for large scale cluster computing.

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Ceph – unified, distributed storage system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Ceph is a unified, distributed storage, massively scalable system designed for excellent performance, reliability and scalability.

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Hadoop Distributed File System – portable file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a distributed, scalable, and portable file system written in Java for the Hadoop framework.

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Quantcast File System – high-performance, fault-tolerant, distributed file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Quantcast File System (QFS) is a high-performance, fault-tolerant, distributed file system developed to support MapReduce processing.

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OrangeFS – open-source parallel file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

OrangeFS is an open-source, multi-server scalable parallel file system targeted at production parallel computation environments.

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Alluxio – virtual distributed file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Alluxio is a virtual distributed storage system. It bridges the gap between computation frameworks and storage systems.

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XtreemFS – object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

XtreemFS is a general purpose storage system and covers most storage needs in a single deployment. XtreemFS is free and open source software.

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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Understanding the File System – Part 12

August 2, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI

Ubuntu has a very different file system compared to Windows. It’s organized in a completely different way designed to offer more security.

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MooseFS – POSIX-compliant distributed file system

October 6, 2020 Steve Emms Internet

MooseFS is a Petabyte Open Source Network Distributed File System. MooseFS spreads data over a number of commodity servers.

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