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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.

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

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Download

• gfarm - 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-s3-minio - a fork of MinIO to provide S3 API for Gfarm
• gfarm-s3-minio-web - a web server to manage a gfarm-s3-minio server
• nextcloud-gfarm - Nextcloud container that uses Gfarm as backend storage.
• gfarm-spack - Spack repository for Gfarm file system
• 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

Documents

• release notes
• license
• overview
• 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
• technical information
  • quota
  • directory quota
  • Gfarm Encrypted File System
  • cipher comparison

Mailing Lists

• https://sourceforge.net/p/gfarm/mailman/

Links

• Developer Info