file system Archives

CryFS – cryptographic filesystem for the cloud

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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