Oracle Cluster File System 2 (OCFS2)

When users of the first version of the Oracle Cluster FileSystem (OCFS) began demanding the sort of features found in a normal native filesystem, (a real general purpose cluster filesystem), OCFS2 was the result, according to Wim Coekaerts's explanatory post on the history of the solution. OCFS2 is very easy to use, he writes, in part because of the simple text file that contains the node information (hostname, node number, cluster name) and a file that contains the cluster heartbeat timeouts. OCFS2 today, in the mainline kernel, is pretty much feature complete in terms of integration with every filesystem feature Linux offers, Coekaerts avers, and it is still actively maintained with Joel Becker being the primary maintainer. Since OCFS2 is part of Oracle VM, the development team will continue to look at interesting new functionality to add, he promises.

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