CRFS (Coherent Remote File System) is a
network file system protocol by Zach Brown formerly of
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Description
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intended to leverage the
Btrfs architecture to gain higher performance than existing protocols (such as
NFS and
SMB) and to expose
Btrfs features such as snapshots to remote clients. The code is unmaintained.
If one is looking for a network file system on top of
Btrfs, there are a number of options available, which are under active support and development, including
Ceph,
BeeGFS
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,
GlusterFS, and
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See also
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Btrfs
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Ceph
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BeeGFS
BeeGFS (formerly FhGFS) is a parallel file system, developed and optimized for high-performance computing. BeeGFS includes a distributed metadata architecture for scalability and flexibility reasons. Its most used and widely known aspect is data ...
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GlusterFS
References
External links
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CRFS and POHMELFS(
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Network file systems
Distributed file systems supported by the Linux kernel