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by IvanVergiliev 2801 days ago
> the only distributed filesystem with distributed metadata (apart from Google Collosus - the hidden jewel in their crown).

Isn't that the case for S3 as well? I haven't seen AWS mention it explicitly, but the consistency guarantees and the "unlimited scalability" claims seem to point in that direction.

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S3 is a blobject store, not a filesystem.