Yes, I plan to run experiments with different numbers of threads/files and many other factors. Right know I only have access to a cluster of 7 old machines. Th

Yes, I plan to run experiments with different numbers of threads/files and many other factors. Right know I only have access to a cluster of 7 old machines. That's the best I can do and for the hadoop case I used all of the machines. Sure thing I will provide all of the commands that I used. I just made this project public to get this type of comments. I have not written or explained anything yet. So there are A LOT to explain like the questions you raised. I will try to answer them here as well: Here is a big sketch of the system: Nodes use fuse to provide a traditional file system view to applications. Zookeeper is used for consensus and it keeps track of what file (name) each node is holding. Swift (or any other persistent storage) is used as the backend. Nodes communicate through TCP or Zero_networking to each other for remote IO operations. * When a file is flushed my consistency/durability guarantees are whatever the backend storage is. If swift, then it's swift's consistency/durability guarantees. While in memory (not flushed or closed) it's consistent because there is only one copy of file at the host node but not durable because if that node dies it's gone. if a node fails there is a master (elected with zookeeper) which will assign the files that node was holding to other nodes (assuming that nodes has flushed it's files to the backend). Failure in zookeeper and swift are out of my project scope. As soon as the system starts, it goes through a zookeeper master election and then master distributes files in the backends to the live nodes. * right now it's just a silly algorithm (the most free node) however, it can/should be changed to a more advanced mechanism which probably considers load and many other factors as well. I am very happy to answer your questions and I really enjoyed answering them. I am sure this is the type of question I will get in my defence session as well. And that's why I post this in the news. :) Awesome, it will be great if other people can contribute in my project. There are many things left to do and a tons of space for improvement. Maybe we can discuss more through email.