# File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution – the morning paper

<https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/11/06/ceph-evolution/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Using shared filesystems for distributed systems is pretty common, and it works fine when it’s small and lightly used. It starts to break in very bad ways at scale.

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## Appears in

- [WT125: Weekly Thing #125 / Nov 9, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/125/), Notable Links 📌

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