The three layers of the traditional storage model—file system, volume manager, and data protection—have evolved over time to suit the needs of small-scale storage architectures but introduce significant complexity and are not well adapted to petabyte-scale systems. The OneFS operating system replaces all of these, providing a unifying clustered file system with integrated scalable data protection, and obviating the need for volume management. OneFS is a fundamental building block for scale-out infrastructures, allowing for massive scale and tremendous efficiency, and is used to power all Dell PowerScale NAS storage solutions.
OneFS is a fully symmetric file system with no single point of failure

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