XtreemFS

XtreemFS
Stable release 1.3.1 / November 2, 2011; 3 months ago (2011-11-02)
Operating system Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Type Distributed file system
License New BSD
Website www.xtreemfs.org

XtreemFS is an object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks[1]. The file system replicates objects for fault tolerance and caches metadata and data to improve performance over high-latency links. SSL and X.509 certificates support make XtreemFS usable over public networks. It's important to note, that XtreemFS is a so-called "grid" file system and is not intended to use in local high-performance clusters[2].

XtreemFS has been under development since early 2007. A first public release was made in August 2008. XtreemFS 1.0 was released in August 2009. The 1.0 release includes support for read-only replication with failover, data center replica maps, parallel reads and writes, and a native Windows client. The 1.1 added automatic on-close replication and POSIX advisory locks. In mid 2011, release 1.3 added read/write replication for files.

XtreemFS is funded by the European Commission's IST programme.

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References

  1. ^ F. Hupfeld, T. Cortes, B. Kolbeck, E. Focht, M. Hess, J. Malo, J. Marti, J. Stender, E. Cesario. "XtreemFS - a case for object-based storage in Grid data management". VLDB Workshop on Data Management in Grids. In: Proceedings of 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Workshops, 2007.
  2. ^ Björn Kolbeck, Jan Stender, Minor Gordon, Felix Hupfeld, Juan Gonzales. "The XtreemFS Installation and User Guide"
  3. ^ J. Stender, B. Kolbeck, F. Hupfeld, E. Cesario, E. Focht, M. Hess, J. Malo, J. Marti. "Striping without Sacrifices: Maintaining POSIX Semantics in a Parallel File System". 1st USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Computing (LASCO '08), Boston, 2008

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