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# Virtual Distributed Filesystem (VDFS)
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Spacedrive is a virtual distributed filesystem, but what exactly is that?
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A virtual filesystem is simply a layer of abstraction between a physical filesystem and the user. A distributed filesystem is a filesystem that is spread across multiple machines. A virtual distributed filesystem is a filesystem that is spread across multiple machines, but appears to the user as a single filesystem.
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## How it works
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Spacedrive defines a VDFS under the following data model; A Library, Nodes, Volumes, Locations, Paths and Objects.
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A node is a single machine running the VDFS software, it syncronizes a CRDT based database, called the Library, with other nodes in the network. The library consists of Locations, found on Volumes, which contain Paths to files on the underlying filesystem.
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