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Google Summer of Code 2013 BEAM Community

Rebalancing for Disco’s Distributed File System

by Patrik Pettersson for BEAM Community

The current version of Disco's distributed file system (DDFS) does not handle imbalanced clusters which may cause problems such as increased network traffic. The goal of this project is to implement a rebalancing mechanism for DDFS clusters to solve imbalance.