JuiceFS: a smart distributed (and free) filesystem for the cloud era

Working with large files across distributed teams is harder than it sounds. You start with rclone, or a VPN pointing at a NAS, or some ad-hoc sync script: and it works, until it doesn't. Too much data transferred, too much latency, too many "who has the file open?" problems. JuiceFS is a different kind of answer. Not a sync tool, not a gateway, but a genuine POSIX-compliant distributed filesystem built on top of object storage. And once you understand its…

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