Moose File System

Moose File System
Developer(s) Core Technology[1]
Stable release 2.0.84-1 / 1 February 2016 (2016-02-01)[2]
Operating system Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X
Type Distributed file system
License GPLv2 / proprietary
Website moosefs.com

Moose File System (MooseFS) is a distributed file system developed by Core Technology. The lead developer is Jakub Kruszona-Zawadzki. MooseFS aims to be fault-tolerant, highly available, highly performing, scalable general-purpose network distributed file system for data centers. Initially proprietary code, it was released to the public as open source on May 5, 2008.

Currently two editions of MooseFS are available:

Design

The MooseFS follows similar design principles as Fossil (file system), Google File System, Lustre or Ceph. The file system comprises three components:

Features

To achieve high reliability and performance MooseFS offers the following features:

Hardware, software and networking

Similarly to other cluster-based file systems MooseFS uses commodity hardware running a POSIX compliant operating system. TCP/IP is used as the interconnect.

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