Distributed File Systems 101

Explore internals of file systems. How normal and distributed file systems works internally.

We first will look at a typical file system, the architectural components and how they all work together when you perform a read or write. We then will take those components and evolve that into a distributed file system architecture. While the architectures we’ll explore will not be of a specific file system, they will be generic enough to be relatable with many file system implementations that exist today.

We also will then implement a tiny distributed file system in Python to see all those components playing together in action.