ScoutFS is a scalable clustered file system designed and implemented for archiving large data sets to low cost external storage resources such as tape, disk, object, and cloud.

Key areas of innovation within the ScoutFS project include increasing the capacity of POSIX namespaces, eliminating the need for file system scans, and harnessing the power of multiple nodes to reach extremely high file creation rates.

Download the ScoutFS white paper to learn more about design elements of the open source ScoutFS file system which solves some of the unique problems associated with large scale file based data archiving.