An Intro to DeepSeek's Distributed File System

Series What is 3FS? 3FS (Fire-Flyer File SystemGeez, what a tongue twister) is a distributed filesystem released by DeepSeek during their open source release week. This blog post will dive into what distributed file systems are and how 3FS operates, starting with some background. What is a distributed filesystem? Distributed filesystems trick applications into thinking they’re talking to a regular local filesystem. This abstraction is incredibly powerful: a file that’s actually fragmented across 10 different machines appears as a simple file path like /3fs/stage/notes.txt In the image above, I create the same folder and file on a local and distributed filesystem by running mkdir and cat . The commands are exactly the same. With a distributed filesystem, all of those details are abstracted away from the user, who can simply work with the files without worrying about how many machines, network calls or disks are involved behind the scene. Why use a distributed filesystem? Distribu ... Read full article.