OrangeFS : Advancing PVFS

PVFS [6] is a frequently used high performance, parallel file system that was developed to meet research and high performance data transfer needs. The resources to develop PVFS into a production quality file system were not available. A second code branch of PVFS, called Orange, was created and cooperatively developed with PVFS over the last two years. The work on the Orange branch lead to the release of OrangeFS [4] which aims to add production quality features to the open source, community driven code base. The features of a production quality file system are not only needed to meet changing research and high performance data transfer demands but also to support large scale file systems and make parallel file systems available in more traditional computing environments. The features currently under development and planned include: