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Orange Version 2.8.5

OrangeFS is released as LGPLed source code in gzipped tar format. OrangeFS is the next evolution of PVFS and is the currently maintained trunk of PVFS and OrangeFS. Version 2.8.5 provides many bug fixes and stability enhancements and includes kernel module support for newer kernels.

The current release of OrangeFS is 2.8.5

orangefs-2.8.5

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Please see the documentation page to find information about how to build, install, configure, and use Orange.

Windows Client

This Client offers transparent Windows access to OrangeFS file systems. It may be downloaded as a self-extracting installer.

Note: this 2.8.5.3 release is backwards-compatible with prior 2.8.x releases.

64-bit (x64) self-extracting installer
32-bit (x86) self-extracting installer
Silent install response file

Please see the documentation page for Windows Client documentation.

Experimental Release

An experimental release of OrangeFS with distributed directories is listed as 2.8.3-EXP NOTES:

  • This code is for experimental purposes and should not be used in production.
  • This version does not yet support conversion of existing file systems. It is for experimental use only on newly-created file systems.
  • This version distributes directory entries among all available metadata servers. Future implementations will allow control over the servers used.
  • The root directory is not distributed. Future versions will support a fully-distributed root directory.
  • Utilities (e.g., pvfs2-fsck and pvfs2-fs-dump) have not yet been updated to handle distributed directories.
orangefs-2.8.3-EXP [Primary Site]

Note that in order to build the latest releases of MPICH2 (1.0.8) and MVAPICH (1.2), you need to download and apply to those packages the patch listed below.

Previous Releases

Previous releases of OrangeFS and PVFS can be downloaded here: Previous releases.

Dependencies

 Orange is easy to install, requiring only a few dependencies, which are often pre-installed on most Linux systems.

Server Dependencies

GCC
Any Unix OS with the GCC compiler.
Oracle Berkeley DB
The server uses Berkeley DB as its backend metadata storage. Many varieties of Unix/Linux have Berkeley DB libraries pre-installed, or have pre-built binaries that can be easily installed. The Oracle Berkeley DB website provides source releases that compile on a wide variety of platforms as well. Note: version 4.8.30 of Berkeley DB is recommended due to thread-safety issue in prior versions leading to metadata courrption.

Linux VFS Client Dependencies

Orange can be mounted in linux just like any other filesystem. We support kernel versions 2.4.x and 2.6.x. Note that almost all 2.6.x kernels are supported and have been tested, except for possibly some of the earliest versions. A kernel module for 2.4.x also exists, but is less frequently tested and is being phased out. We highly encourage users and administrators to install the Orange client on a relatively recent 2.6.x kernel.
Kernel Headers
The Orange kernel module must be built against the pre-configured kernel headers. The version of kernel headers must match the running kernel. Most linux distributions provide packages for installing the latest kernel headers.

Optional Dependencies

Myricom's MX
Orange has support for myricom's high-bandwidth, low-latency networking protocol. In order to build Orange to use MX, the MX libraries must be installed. See Myricom's MX page for further info.
Infiniband
Both Mellanox Verbs API and OpenIB are supported by Orange.

Related Software

MPI-IO (ROMIO)

MPI-IO is the recommended interface for interacting with Orange from a parallel application. MPI-IO support for Orange version 2 is provided through the ROMIO package. The latest versions of ROMIO as distributed with MPICH2 already contain Orange version 2 support by default.

Please visit the MPICH2 web site to download this software or find out more information.

pNFS with Orange

Collaborators at CITI have designed and implemented a prototype of pNFS that exports a Orange filesystem providing high-performance over an NFS v4 protocol. See the CITI pNFS website for further information.

Orange FUSE Interface

John Chandy at the University of Connecticut has written a FUSE interface for PVFS v.2. This allows Orange clients to access Orange volumes from non-Linux machines, such as Mac OS X and FreeBSD. More information is available from the pvfs2fuse website.
NOTE: FUSE support for Orange is now included in the latest Orange release, version 2.8.2.

Patches

Orange releases have been tested for stability. We provide fixes to bugs found in the most recent release as patch sets. Each patch set can be applied to the most recent release until that release is superseded.

Date Patch Description Release Target Affects
March 10, 2009 mpich2-with-pvfs28.patch Patch to build MPICH2 1.0.8 and MVAPICH 1.2 with Orange 2.8.* MPICH2 1.0.8 and MVAPICH 1.2 Does not affect Orange directly
May 11, 2007 pvfs-lk21.patch Patch to build Orange with linux kernel 2.6.21 2.6.3 Orange Kernel Module
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