Welcome to the Orange File System Project
Orange File System is a branch of the Parallel Virtual File System.
Like PVFS, Orange is a parallel file system designed for use on high end
computing (HEC) systems that provides very high performance access
to disk storage for parallel applications. OrangeFS is different from PVFS
in that we have developed features for OrangeFS that are not presently
available in the PVFS main distribution. While PVFS development tends
to focus on specific very large systems, Orange considers a number of
areas that have not been well supported by PVFS in the past. OrangeFS
development tends to be driven by input from users with specific needs.
To become one of these users open a dialog with the OrangeFS development
team.
PVFS design characteristics that are common with OrangeFS include:
- Performance
- Reliability
- Optimized MPI-IO support
- Hardware Independence
- Painless Deployment
- Research Platform
See the PVFS Home Page for further details on these
characteristics.
There are a number of specific areas where Orange development has been
focused over the last couple of years including:
Metadata operations
OrangeFS uses server-to-server collective communication to improve the
scalability of metadata operations. OrangsFS is implementing
distributed directories to make directory operations more scalable.
Another project is developing the ability to search metadata as an
alternative to traditional path lookup.
Small, unaligned accesses
OrangeFS is developing middleware driven caching on the client side
including configurable semantics that provide a tradeoff between
performance and consistency management.
Cross-server redundancy
Hardware failover provides a invaluable services for large storage
systems. Some installations want additional redundancy, and smaller
installations want redundancy without the high cost of hardware
solutions. OrangeFS is developing configurable redundancy and fail-over
mechanisms into the file system. These allow different files to have
difference levels of redundancy as required by the application and also
allow FS redundancy to the turned off for maximum performance.
Secure access control
OrangeFS has developed an access control method based on signed
credentials and capabilities that works with federated authentication
mechanisms and yet maintains performance characteristics. Current
research is working on flexible access control schemas beyond simple
userid based permissions.
Improved documentation
The OrangeFS project is working to be production ready including
improving the documentation base for all of PVFS.
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Quick Links
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FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions.
- Doxygen
- View source code documentation
- Fisheye
- Browse the source code.
- Jenkins
- Continuous Integration Testing. View the latest test runs and results.
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