The Chirp Distributed File System - Cooperative Computing LabChirp is a user-level file system for collaboration across distributed systems such as clusters, clouds, and grids. Chirp allows ordinary users to discover, share, and access storage, whether within a single machine room or over a wide area network. Chirp requires no special privileges. Unlike most standard file systems or storage services, Chirp does not require root access, kernel changes, speci
