From: Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Here is version two of the Orangefs kernel client patch. Changes and who suggested them: * addition of this 0/X part of the series - Boaz Harrosh * addition of orangefs.txt file - Boaz Harrosh * Kconfig cleanup - Randy Dunlap * removal of some non-ascii characters from a few comments * less clumsy use of git-send-email * built against 3.19-rc5 OrangeFS is an LGPL userspace, scale-out, parallel storage system. It is ideal for large storage problems faced by HPC, Big Data, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Video Streaming and Rendering. Features: * Distributed Metadata, including Giga+-inspired distributed metadata for directory entries * Support for multiple network infrastructures leveraging BMI to adapt to TCP, IB, Portals and others. * Stateless Servers * User-level Implementation * Multiple interface integration levels for easy system and application integration * Server-to-server collective communication for improved metadata operation scalability * Scalable, Portable and Flexible * Proven Research Platform * Integrated capability-based security * Extensive Documentation * Optimized MPI-IO Support In addition to the Linux kernel client, OrangeFS supports multiple client platforms and applications including: WEBDAV, S3, Windows and Hadoop Integration History: OrangeFS is the third development phase of the PVFS project. PFVS was first developed in 1993 by Walt Ligon and Eric Blumer as a parallel file system for Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) as part of a NASA grant to study the I/O patterns of parallel programs. In 2001-2004 a complete rewrite PVFS2 was developed by Walt Ligon, Phil Carnes, Pete Wyckoff, Neil Miller, Rob Latham, Sam Lang and others, providing for many of the modern distributed and parallel file system concepts. Omnibond is leading the third phase of development with the OrangeFS Community. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html