US Patent 12135695 Data migration in a distributed file system

In an approach, a processor obtains a configuration file of a distributed file system federation, the configuration file comprising a list of a plurality of subclusters within the distributed file system federation and migration trigger factors for the plurality of subclusters. A processor determines a list of one or more source subclusters and a list of to-be-migrated directories in the one or more source subclusters based on a scanning result of the plurality of subclusters and the migration trigger factors in the configuration file. A processor generates a migration plan to migrate the to-be-migrated directories from the one or more source subclusters to one or more target subclusters in the distributed file system federation.