[maknee]

Great to see another distributed file system open sourced! It has some interesting design decisions.

Have a couple of questions:

- How do you go about benchmarking throughput / latency of such a system? Curious if it's different compared to how other distributed filesystems benchmark their systems.

- Is network or storage the bottleneck for nodes (at least for throughput)?

  - From my observations from RDMA-based distributed filesystems, network seems to be the case.

- How does the system respond to rand / seq + reads / writes? A lot of systems struggle to scale writes. Does this matter for what workload TernFS is designed for?

- Very very interesting to go down the path of writing a kernel module instead of using FUSE or writing a native client in userspace (referring to 3FS [1])

  - Any crashes in production? And how do you go about tracking it down?

  - What's the difference in performance between using the kernel module versus using FUSE?

[1] https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS/blob/main/docs/design_not...