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Let's Build a Distributed File System

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This course explains the architecture of typical and distributed file systems, including read and write operations, components, limitations, and failure scenarios. Learners also implement a simple distributed file system in Python.

Syllabus

Introduction
Agenda
What is a filesystem
What does a filesystem look like
Data blocks
Read example
Distributed file system
File system
Minions
Demo
What can go wrong
Limitations

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USENIX

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