3FS — 2 Technical Articles

Dec 17, 2025 · Cloud Native

How 3FS Powers High‑Performance KVCache for AI Inference: Architecture, Optimizations, and Cloud‑Native Deployment

This article details the design and engineering of the 3FS distributed file system as a scalable KVCache backend for large‑language‑model inference, covering its architecture, performance tuning, reliability fixes, integration with SGLang/vLLM, and cloud‑native Kubernetes operator deployment.

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How 3FS Powers High‑Performance KVCache for AI Inference: Architecture, Optimizations, and Cloud‑Native Deployment

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Sep 9, 2025 · Fundamentals

Inside 3FS: How Distributed File Systems Hide Complexity and Scale

3FS is an open‑source distributed file system that abstracts multiple machines into a single namespace, offering massive scalability, fault tolerance, and high throughput through components like Meta, Mgmtd, Storage, and Client, and leveraging the CRAQ protocol for strong consistency and efficient reads and writes.

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Inside 3FS: How Distributed File Systems Hide Complexity and Scale