BeeGFS

BeegFS is like a big library where you can store all your books or files. Just like you can find your books in a library by going to the shelf with the name of the book, BeegFS stores your files in different groups or sections called nodes.

Let's imagine there is a big box named BeegFS that can store many little boxes, like many shelves in a big library. Each shelf has a number and a name, which is like a node name in BeegFS. Each little box can hold many books, and each book has a name, just like each file has a name in BeegFS.

Now let's imagine there are many kids who want to read books all at the same time. They can go to the library and look for the books they want to read. BeegFS allows many people to access the same file at the same time, like when many kids read the same book at the library.

In BeegFS, there is also a special computer called the "metadata server" which keeps track of all the files you have stored and where they are located. It's like a special librarian who knows where each book is located in the library.

So, BeegFS is a big storage place where you can put all your files and let many people use them at once!