Gfarm File System

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Gfarm file system is a network shared file system that supports scalable I/O performance in distributed environment. It can federate local disks of network-connected PCs and compute nodes in several clusters.

DOWNLOAD gfarm2fs, etc

Support

Gfarm file system is free software. Although there are several documents and it is supported via mailing list, here is a list of consultants for people who require professional support.

• (Japan) NPO Tsukuba OSS Technical Support Center ( English | Japanese )
• (Australia) Libre Solutions Pty Ltd

Documents

• release notes
• overview
• license
• installation
  • from source
  • from RPM package
  • from Debian package
• setup procedure
  • creating a Gfarm filesystem
  • configure active-standby metadata servers
  • creating a Gfarm filesystem with normal user privilege
• FAQ
• known problems
• manual pages
• directory quota
• cipher comparison

Software components

• gfarm_v2 - Gfarm filesystem servers and CLI clients
• gfarm2fs - a Gfarm filesystem client, based on FUSE
• gfarm_hadoop - Hadoop plugin to use Gfarm as Hadoop storage
• gfarm_samba - Samba plugin to access a Gfarm filesystem via samba server
• gfarm_mpiio - Patch to MPICH and MVAPICH to access a Gfarm filesystem via MPI-IO
• gfarm_gridftp_dsi - GridFTP server plugin to access a Gfarm filesytem via GridFTP
• gfarm_zabbix - Zabbix plugin to monitor a Gfarm filesystem

Related Software

• WebGfarm - apache httpd module to access a Gfarm filesystem via HTTP
• Pwrake - Parallel workflow extension for Rake

Links

• Developer Info