LizardFS is an Open Source Distributed File System licensed under GPLv3.
# LizardFS [![Gitter chat](https://badges.gitter.im/gitterHQ/gitter.png)](https://gitter.im/lizardfs/)

## Introduction

LizardFS is a highly reliable, scalable and efficient distributed file system. It spreads data over a number of physical servers, making it visible to an end user as a single file system.

LizardFS Windows Client: https://lizardfs.com/windows-client

For support please contact contact@lizardfs.com or visit [lizardfs.com](https://www.lizardfs.com).

## Useful links

- [Main code repository](https://dev.lizardfs.com/gerrit/admin/repos/lizardfs)

- [GitHub repository mirror](https://github.com/lizardfs/lizardfs)

- [Documentation Source](https://github.com/lizardfs/documentation)

- [Code review system](https://dev.lizardfs.com/gerrit/)

- [Continuous integration system](https://dev.lizardfs.com/jenkins)

- [Documentation](https://dev.lizardfs.com/docs)

- [Mailing List](https://sourceforge.net/p/lizardfs/mailman/lizardfs-users/)

You can also join the community irc at #lizardfs on FreeNode.

## Participation

Please feel free to contribute to documentation, wiki and the code.
Rules for submitting patches can be found in the developers Guide in the LizardFS documentation: https://dev.lizardfs.com/docs/devguide/submitting.html

## We would love to hear about your use cases

We would like to engage more with our community so if you are able to please email us with your use case at: contact@lizardfs.com.

It will help us make LizardFS even better and will help others choose LizardFS for their storage.

  You could mention the following:

    - purpose of the installation,
    - RAW capacity,
    - features used,
    - HW architecture (including network),
    - number of concurrent users,
    - some performance stats,
    - if you want us to anonymise the data or not.

Thank you for your help.

The LizardFS team.
