MooseFS

"Moose File System (MooseFS) is an Open-source, POSIX-compliant distributed file system developed by Core Technology. MooseFS aims to be fault-tolerant, highly available, highly performing, scalable general-purpose network distributed file system for data centers.

The file system comprises three components:

• Metadata server (MDS) — manages the location (layout) of files, file access and namespace hierarchy. The current version of MooseFS does support multiple metadata servers and automatic failover. Clients only talk to the MDS to retrieve/update a file's layout and attributes; the data itself is transferred directly between clients and chunk servers. The Metadata server is a user-space daemon; the metadata is kept in memory and lazily stored on local disk.
• Metalogger server — periodically pulls the metadata from the MDS to store it for backup. Since version 1.6.5, this is an optional feature.
• Chunk servers (CSS) — store the data and optionally replicate it among themselves. There can be many of them, though the scalability limit has not been published. The biggest cluster reported so far consists of 160 servers.^[9] The Chunk server is also a user-space daemon that relies on the underlying local file system to manage the actual storage.
• Clients — talk to both the MDS and CSS. MooseFS clients mount the file system into user-space via FUSE.

 The file system comprises three components:

• Metadata server (MDS) — manages the location (layout) of files, file access and namespace hierarchy. The current version of MooseFS does support multiple metadata servers and automatic failover. Clients only talk to the MDS to retrieve/update a file's layout and attributes; the data itself is transferred directly between clients and chunk servers. The Metadata server is a user-space daemon; the metadata is kept in memory and lazily stored on local disk.
• Metalogger server — periodically pulls the metadata from the MDS to store it for backup. Since version 1.6.5, this is an optional feature.
• Chunk servers (CSS) — store the data and optionally replicate it among themselves. There can be many of them, though the scalability limit has not been published. The biggest cluster reported so far consists of 160 servers.^[9] The Chunk server is also a user-space daemon that relies on the underlying local file system to manage the actual storage.
• Clients — talk to both the MDS and CSS. MooseFS clients mount the file system into user-space via FUSE.

https://moosefs.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_File_System

https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs

LizardFS - fork of MooseFS

https://lizardfs.com/

From NFS to LizardFS - https://cedarandthistle.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/from-nfs-to-lizardfs/