Patent 10187255 was granted and assigned to Red Hat on January, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A request to change a configuration of a distributed file system that includes servers may be received. A subset of the servers that corresponds to a configuration cluster may be identified. Each of the servers in the configuration cluster may store configuration data of the distributed file system. The request to change the configuration of the distributed file system may be forwarded to a leader server of the configuration cluster. A response from the leader server may be received and the configuration data may be modified in view of the response from the leader server.