MooseFS (MFS) is a fault tolerant, highly performing, scaling-out, network distributed file system. It spreads data over several physical servers which are visible to the user as one resource. For standard file operations MooseFS mounted with FUSE acts as other Unix-alike file systems:

* A hierarchical structure (directory tree)
* Stores POSIX file attributes (permissions, last access and modification times)
Supports special files (block and character devices, pipes and sockets)
* Symbolic links (file names pointing to target files, not necessarily on MooseFS) and hard links (different names of files which refer to the same data on MooseFS)
* Access to the file system can be limited based on IP address and/or password

MooseFS on GitHub:
https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs

Packages repository, download:
https://moosefs.com/download

Documentation:
https://moosefs.com/support

Recent changes:
https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs/blob/master/NEWS

Features

  • dynamically expanding disk space by attaching new computers/disks
  • higher reliability (data can be stored in several copies on separate computers)
  • possibility of storing deleted files for a defined period of time
  • possibility of creating snapshots of files, which means a coherent copy of the whole file, even while the file is being written/accessed

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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  • The best open-source distributed filesystem I have ever used.
  • I am a chinese user . I don't know how to use this software I need help help help me my eml address is 1601277741@qq.com
  • Moosefs is good! Thanks.
  • I tested ceph, xtreemfs, drbd+ocfs2 and glusterfs, but without positive results Finally I choose MooseFS! It's perfect! Thank you!
  • A powerful and extensible file system, suitable for enterprise and production installations, which require high availability and robustness.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Information Technology, Financial and Insurance Industry, Healthcare Industry, Science/Research, System Administrators, Developers

User Interface

Web-based, Non-interactive (Daemon), Command-line

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C Clustering Software, C Distributed Computing Software, C File Systems

Registered

2008-05-20