"TernFS:
- Is designed to scale up to tens of exabytes, trillions of files, millions of concurrent clients.
- Stores file contents redundantly to protect against drive failures.
- Has no single point of failure in its metadata services.
- Supports file snapshot to protect against accidental file deletion."
- Can span across multiple regions.
- Is hardware agnostic and uses TCP/IP to communicate.
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https://www.xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/

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TernFS: an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem | XTX Tech Blog

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