which is the best choice of serving static media files of a website with heavy traffic?

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Published on 2010-03-30T06:48:34Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 6:53 UTC
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Take a look at this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_parallel_fault-tolerant_file_systems

and which is the best choice for storing large number of static media files of a website? (among these distributed parallel fault tolerant file systems)

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