MaidSafe Distributed File System

Distributed file systems require servers or control nodes. Access to a file system is a security issue that can apparently only be controlled by some kind of authority,and this is always a potential point of failure. These file systems also require an indexing mechanism. This paper presents a distributed file system without centralised control or indexing. This file system also utilises a distributed locking mechanism to ensure data integrity in the case of multi-user access to any file.