The Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS, in its second version OCFS2) is a shared disk file system developed by Oracle Corporation and released under the GNU General Public License. The first version of OCFS was developed with the main focus to accommodate Oracle's database management system that used cluster computing. Because of that it was not a POSIX-compliant file system. With version 2 the POSIX features were included.
OCFS2 (version 2) was integrated into the version 2.6.16 of Linux kernel. Initially, it was marked as "experimental" (Alpha-test) code. This restriction was removed in Linux version 2.6.19. With kernel version 2.6.29 in late 2008, more features were included into ocfs2, such as access control lists and quotas.
OCFS2 used a distributed lock manager which resembles the OpenVMS DLM but is much simpler. Oracle announced version 1.6 in November 2010 which included a copy on write feature called reflink.
See also
- Free and open-source software portal
- GlusterFS
- GFS2
- General Parallel File System (GPFS)
- List of file systems
- Lustre (file system)
- MooseFS
- QFS
Notes and references
External links
- OCFS2 project page
- OCFS project page
- "OCFS2 filesystem". 2011-08-11.
References
Mark Fasheh (December 19, 2008). "Ocfs2 patches for merge window batch 1/3". Linux Kernel Mailing List. Retrieved October 24, 2016. https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/19/280 ↩
Mark Fasheh (December 22, 2008). "Ocfs2 patches for merge window batch 2/3". Linux Kernel Mailing List. Retrieved October 24, 2016. https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/22/213 ↩
Jonathan Corbet (May 24, 2005). "The OCFS2 filesystem". LWN.net. Retrieved October 24, 2016. https://lwn.net/Articles/137278 ↩
John Margaglione (November 30, 2010). "What's new in Oracle Linux Part 1: OCFS2 1.6 REFLINKs". Oracle. Archived from the original on May 10, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170510113950/https://blogs.oracle.com/devpartner/entry/whats_new_in_oracle_linux ↩