> 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?

> 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.