Distributed file systems are the fundamental units for cloud applications where in the data node concurrently serves the computing and storage functions. In these file systems, a file is split by a master node into a set of file chunks and allotted to separate data nodes such that various jobs can be carried out in parallel across the data nodes. However, the unpredictability of the nodes and dynamism in the number of files raise the need for uniform redistribution of files to prevent the adverse effects of load imbalance.
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