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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><caption class="infobox-title summary">GFS2</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_developer" class="mw-redirect" title="Software developer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Red_Hat" title="Red Hat">Red Hat</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Full name</th><td class="infobox-data">Global File System 2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Introduced</th><td class="infobox-data">2005 with <a href="Linux_kernel" title="Linux kernel">Linux</a> 2.6.19</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Structures</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Directory contents</th><td class="infobox-data">Hashed (small directories stuffed into inode)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">File allocation</th><td class="infobox-data">bitmap (resource groups)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Bad blocks</th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Limits</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Max <abbr title="number">no.</abbr> of files</th><td class="infobox-data">Variable</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Max filename length</th><td class="infobox-data">255 bytes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Allowed filename<br>characters</th><td class="infobox-data">All except <a href="Null_character" title="Null character">NUL</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Features</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Dates recorded</th><td class="infobox-data">attribute modification (ctime), modification (mtime), access (atime)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Date resolution</th><td class="infobox-data">Nanosecond</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Attributes</th><td class="infobox-data">No-atime, journaled data (regular files only), inherit journaled data (directories only), synchronous-write, append-only, immutable, exhash (dirs only, read only)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="File_system_permissions" class="mw-redirect" title="File system permissions">File system<br>permissions</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Unix permissions, <a href="Access_Control_List" class="mw-redirect" title="Access Control List">ACLs</a> and arbitrary security attributes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Transparent<br>compression</th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Filesystem-level_encryption" title="Filesystem-level encryption">Transparent<br>encryption</a></th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Data_deduplication" title="Data deduplication">Data deduplication</a></th><td class="infobox-data">across nodes only</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Other</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Supported<br><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Linux</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table class="infobox vevent"><caption class="infobox-title summary">GFS</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_developer" class="mw-redirect" title="Software developer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Red_Hat" title="Red Hat">Red Hat</a> (formerly, <a href="Sistina_Software" title="Sistina Software">Sistina Software</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Full name</th><td class="infobox-data">Global File System</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Introduced</th><td class="infobox-data">1996 with <a href="IRIX" title="IRIX">IRIX</a> (1996), <a href="Linux_kernel" title="Linux kernel">Linux</a> (1997)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Structures</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Directory contents</th><td class="infobox-data">Hashed (small directories stuffed into inode)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">File allocation</th><td class="infobox-data">bitmap (resource groups)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Bad blocks</th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Limits</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Max <abbr title="number">no.</abbr> of files</th><td class="infobox-data">Variable</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Max filename length</th><td class="infobox-data">255 bytes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Allowed filename<br>characters</th><td class="infobox-data">All except NUL</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Features</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Dates recorded</th><td class="infobox-data">attribute modification (ctime), modification (mtime), access (atime)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Date resolution</th><td class="infobox-data">1s</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Attributes</th><td class="infobox-data">No-atime, journaled data (regular files only), inherit journaled data (directories only), synchronous-write, append-only, immutable, exhash (dirs only, read only)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="File_system_permissions" class="mw-redirect" title="File system permissions">File system<br>permissions</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Unix permissions, <a href="Access_Control_List" class="mw-redirect" title="Access Control List">ACLs</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Transparent<br>compression</th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Filesystem-level_encryption" title="Filesystem-level encryption">Transparent<br>encryption</a></th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Data_deduplication" title="Data deduplication">Data deduplication</a></th><td class="infobox-data">across nodes only</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Other</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Supported<br><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="IRIX" title="IRIX">IRIX</a> (now obsolete), <a href="FreeBSD" title="FreeBSD">FreeBSD</a> (now obsolete), <a href="Linux_kernel" title="Linux kernel">Linux</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p>In <a href="Computing" title="Computing">computing</a>, the <b>Global File System 2</b> (<b>GFS2</b>) is a <a href="Clustered_file_system#Shared-disk_file_system" title="Clustered file system">shared-disk file system</a> for <a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> computer clusters. GFS2 allows all members of a cluster to have direct concurrent access to the same shared <a href="Block_storage" class="mw-redirect" title="Block storage">block storage</a>, in contrast to <a href="Clustered_file_system#Distributed_file_systems" title="Clustered file system">distributed file systems</a> which distribute data throughout the cluster. GFS2 can also be used as a local file system on a single computer.

</p><p>GFS2 has no disconnected operating-mode, and no client or server roles. All nodes in a GFS2 cluster function as peers. Using GFS2 in a cluster requires <a href="#Hardware">hardware</a> to allow access to the shared storage, and a lock manager to control access to the storage.

The lock manager operates as a separate module: thus GFS2 can use the <a href="Distributed_lock_manager" title="Distributed lock manager">distributed lock manager</a> (DLM) for <a href="Cluster_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cluster (computing)">cluster</a> configurations and the "nolock" lock manager for local filesystems. Older versions of GFS also support GULM, a server-based lock manager which implements redundancy via failover.

</p><p>GFS and GFS2 are <a href="Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a>, distributed under the terms of the <a href="GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<p>Development of GFS began in 1995 and was originally developed by <a href="University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a> professor Matthew O'Keefe and a group of students.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was originally written for <a href="Silicon_Graphics%2C_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Silicon Graphics, Inc.">SGI</a>'s <a href="IRIX" title="IRIX">IRIX</a> operating system, but in 1998 it was ported to <a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> (2.4)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> since the <a href="Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open source</a> code provided a more convenient development platform. In late 1999/early 2000 it made its way to <a href="Sistina_Software" title="Sistina Software">Sistina Software</a>, where it lived for a time as an <a href="Open-source_model" class="mw-redirect" title="Open-source model">open-source</a> project. In 2001, Sistina made the choice to make GFS a proprietary product.

</p><p>Developers forked OpenGFS from the last public release of GFS and then further enhanced it to include updates allowing it to work with OpenDLM. But OpenGFS and OpenDLM became defunct, since <a href="Red_Hat" title="Red Hat">Red Hat</a> purchased Sistina in December 2003 and released GFS and many cluster-infrastructure pieces under the <a href="GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GPL</a> in late June 2004.

</p><p><a href="Red_Hat" title="Red Hat">Red Hat</a> subsequently financed further development geared towards bug-fixing and stabilization. A further development, <b>GFS2</b><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> derives from GFS and was included along with its <a href="Distributed_lock_manager" title="Distributed lock manager">distributed lock manager</a> (shared with GFS) in Linux 2.6.19. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 included GFS2 as a kernel module for evaluation purposes. With the 5.3 update, GFS2 became part of the kernel package.

</p><p>GFS2 forms part of the <a href="Fedora_(operating_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fedora (operating system)">Fedora</a>, <a href="Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux" title="Red Hat Enterprise Linux">Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a> and associated <a href="CentOS" title="CentOS">CentOS</a> Linux distributions. Users can purchase commercial support to run GFS2 fully supported on top of <a href="Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux" title="Red Hat Enterprise Linux">Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a>. As of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3, GFS2 is supported in <a href="Cloud_computing" title="Cloud computing">cloud computing</a> environments in which shared storage devices are available.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The following list summarizes some version numbers and major features introduced:

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<li>v3.0 Linux port</li>

<li>v4 <a href="Journaling_file_system" title="Journaling file system">journaling</a></li>

<li>v5 Redundant lock manager</li>

<li>v6.1 (2005) <a href="Distributed_lock_manager" title="Distributed lock manager">Distributed lock manager</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130415054818/http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0215ffb08ce99e2bb59eca114a99499a4d06e704">Linux 2.6.19 </a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130415052857/http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=4a61f17378c2cdd9bd8f34ef8bd7422861d0c1f1">GFS2 and DLM merged into Linux kernel</a></li>

<li><a href="Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux" title="Red Hat Enterprise Linux">Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3</a> releases the first fully supported GFS2</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hardware">Hardware</h2></div>

<p>The design of GFS and of GFS2 targets <a href="Storage_area_network" title="Storage area network">storage area network</a> (SAN)-like environments. Although it is possible to use them as a single node filesystem, the full feature-set requires a SAN. This can take the form of <a href="ISCSI" title="ISCSI">iSCSI</a>, <a href="Fibre_Channel" title="Fibre Channel">Fibre Channel</a>, <a href="ATA_over_Ethernet" title="ATA over Ethernet">ATA over Ethernet</a> (AoE), or any other device which can be presented under <a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> as a block device shared by a number of nodes, for example a <a href="DRBD" title="DRBD">DRBD</a> device.

</p><p>The <a href="Distributed_lock_manager" title="Distributed lock manager">distributed lock manager</a> (DLM) requires an <a href="Internet_Protocol" title="Internet Protocol">IP</a> based network over which to communicate. This is normally just <a href="Ethernet" title="Ethernet">Ethernet</a>, but again, there are many other possible solutions. Depending upon the choice of SAN, it may be possible to combine this, but normal practice involves separate networks for the DLM and storage.

</p><p>The GFS requires a <a href="Fencing_(computing)" title="Fencing (computing)">fencing</a> mechanism of some kind. This is a requirement of the cluster infrastructure, rather than GFS/GFS2 itself, but it is required for all multi-node clusters. The usual options include power switches and remote access controllers (e.g. <a href="Dell_DRAC" title="Dell DRAC">DRAC</a>, <a href="Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface" title="Intelligent Platform Management Interface">IPMI</a>, or <a href="HP_Integrated_Lights-Out" class="mw-redirect" title="HP Integrated Lights-Out">ILO</a>). Virtual and hypervisor-based fencing mechanisms can also be used. <a href="Fencing_(computing)" title="Fencing (computing)">Fencing</a> is used to ensure that a node which the cluster believes to be failed cannot suddenly start working again while another node is recovering the journal for the failed node. It can also optionally restart the failed node automatically once the recovery is complete.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Differences_from_a_local_filesystem">Differences from a local filesystem</h2></div>

<p>Although the designers of GFS/GFS2 aimed to emulate a local filesystem closely, there are a number of differences to be aware of. Some of these are due to the existing filesystem interfaces not allowing the passing of information relating to the cluster. Some stem from the difficulty of implementing those features efficiently in a clustered manner. For example:

</p>

<ul><li>The <a href="File_locking#In_UNIX" title="File locking">flock()</a> system call on GFS/GFS2 is not interruptible by <a href="Signal_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Signal (computing)">signals</a>.</li>

<li>The <a href="File_locking#In_UNIX" title="File locking">fcntl()</a> F_GETLK system call returns a PID of any blocking lock. Since this is a cluster filesystem, that PID might refer to a process on any of the nodes which have the filesystem mounted. Since the purpose of this interface is to allow a signal to be sent to the blocking process, this is no longer possible.</li>

<li>Leases are not supported with the lock_dlm (cluster) lock module, but they are supported when used as a local filesystem</li>

<li><a href="Dnotify" title="Dnotify">dnotify</a> will work on a "same node" basis, but its use with GFS/GFS2 is not recommended</li>

<li><a href="Inotify" title="Inotify">inotify</a> will also work on a "same node" basis, and is also not recommended (but it may become supported in the future)</li>

<li><a href="Splice_(system_call)" title="Splice (system call)">splice</a> is supported on GFS2 only</li></ul>

<p>The other main difference, and one that is shared by all similar cluster filesystems, is that the cache control mechanism, known as glocks (pronounced Gee-locks) for GFS/GFS2, has an effect across the whole cluster. Each <a href="Inode" title="Inode">inode</a> on the filesystem has two glocks associated with it. One (called the iopen glock) keeps track of which processes have the inode open. The other (the inode glock) controls the cache relating to that inode. A glock has four states, UN (unlocked), SH (shared – a read lock), DF (deferred – a read lock incompatible with SH) and EX (exclusive). Each of the four modes maps directly to a <a href="Distributed_lock_manager" title="Distributed lock manager">DLM</a> lock mode.

</p><p>When in EX mode, an inode is allowed to cache data and <a href="File_system#Metadata" title="File system">metadata</a> (which might be "dirty", i.e. waiting for write back to the filesystem). In SH mode, the inode can cache data and metadata, but it must not be dirty. In DF mode, the inode is allowed to cache metadata only, and again it must not be dirty. The DF mode is used only for direct I/O. In UN mode, the inode must not cache any metadata.

</p><p>In order that operations which change an inode's data or metadata do not interfere with each other, an EX lock is used. This means that certain operations, such as create/unlink of files from the <i>same</i> directory and writes to the <i>same</i> file should be, in general, restricted to one node in the cluster. Of course, doing these operations from multiple nodes will work as expected, but due to the requirement to flush caches frequently, it will not be very efficient.

</p><p>The single most frequently asked question about GFS/GFS2 performance is why the performance can be poor with email servers. The solution is to break up the mail spool into separate directories and to try to keep (so far as is possible) each node reading and writing to a private set of directories.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Journaling">Journaling</h2></div>

<p>GFS and GFS2 are both <a href="Journaled_file_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Journaled file system">journaled file systems</a>; and GFS2 supports a similar set of journaling modes as <a href="Ext3" title="Ext3">ext3</a>. In <i>data=writeback</i> mode, only metadata is journaled. This is the only mode supported by GFS, however it is possible to turn on journaling on individual data-files, but only when they are of zero size. Journaled files in GFS have a number of restrictions placed upon them, such as

no support for the <a href="Mmap" title="Mmap">mmap</a> or sendfile system calls, they also use a different on-disk format from regular files. There is also an "inherit-journal" attribute which when set on a directory causes all files (and sub-directories) created within that directory to have the journal (or inherit-journal, respectively) flag set. This can be used instead of the <i>data=journal</i> mount option which <a href="Ext3" title="Ext3">ext3</a> supports (and GFS/GFS2 does not).

</p><p>GFS2 also supports <i>data=ordered</i> mode which is similar to <i>data=writeback</i> except that dirty data is synced before each journal flush is completed. This ensures that blocks which have been added to an inode will have their content synced back to disk before the metadata is updated to record the new size and thus prevents uninitialised blocks appearing in a file under node failure conditions. The default journaling mode is <i>data=ordered</i>, to match <a href="Ext3" title="Ext3">ext3</a>'s default.

</p><p>As of 2010, GFS2 does not yet support <i>data=journal</i> mode, but it does (unlike GFS) use the same on-disk format for both regular and journaled files, and it also supports the same journaled and inherit-journal attributes. GFS2 also relaxes the restrictions on when a file may have its journaled attribute changed to any time that the file is not open (also the same as <a href="Ext3" title="Ext3">ext3</a>).

</p><p>For performance reasons, each node in GFS and GFS2 has its own journal. In GFS the journals are disk extents, in GFS2 the journals are just regular files. The number of nodes which may mount the filesystem at any one time is limited by the number of available journals.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features_of_GFS2_compared_with_GFS">Features of GFS2 compared with GFS</h2></div>

<p>GFS2 adds a number of new features which are not in GFS. Here is a summary of those features not already mentioned in the boxes to the right of this page:

</p>

<ul><li>The metadata filesystem (really a different root) – see <a href="#Compatibility_and_the_GFS2_meta_filesystem">Compatibility and the GFS2 meta filesystem</a> below</li>

<li>GFS2 specific trace points have been available since kernel 2.6.32</li>

<li>The XFS-style quota interface has been available in GFS2 since kernel 2.6.33</li>

<li>Caching ACLs have been available in GFS2 since 2.6.33</li>

<li>GFS2 supports the generation of "discard" requests for thin provisioning/SCSI TRIM requests</li>

<li>GFS2 supports I/O barriers (on by default, assuming underlying device supports it. Configurable from kernel 2.6.33 and up)</li>

<li>FIEMAP ioctl (to query mappings of inodes on disk)</li>

<li><a href="Splice_(system_call)" title="Splice (system call)">Splice (system call)</a> support</li>

<li>mmap/splice support for journaled files (enabled by using the same on disk format as for regular files)</li>

<li>Far fewer tunables (making set-up less complicated)</li>

<li>Ordered write mode (as per ext3, GFS only has writeback mode)</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Compatibility_and_the_GFS2_meta_filesystem">Compatibility and the GFS2 meta filesystem</h2></div>

<p>GFS2 was designed so that upgrading from GFS would be a simple procedure. To this end, most of the on-disk structure has remained the same as GFS, including the <a href="Endianness#Big-endian" title="Endianness">big-endian</a> byte ordering. There are a few differences though:

</p>

<ul><li>GFS2 has a "meta filesystem" through which processes access system files</li>

<li>GFS2 uses the same on-disk format for journaled files as for regular files</li>

<li>GFS2 uses regular (system) files for journals, whereas GFS uses special extents</li>

<li>GFS2 has some other "<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">

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<li>The layout of the <a href="Inode" title="Inode">inode</a> is (very slightly) different</li>

<li>The layout of indirect blocks differs slightly</li></ul>

<p>The journaling systems of GFS and GFS2 are not compatible with each other. Upgrading is possible by means of a tool (<span class="monospaced">gfs2_convert</span>) which is run with the filesystem off-line to update the metadata. Some spare blocks in the GFS journals are used to create the (very small) <span class="monospaced">per_node</span> files required by GFS2 during the update process. Most of the data remains in place.

</p><p>The GFS2 "meta filesystem" is not a filesystem in its own right, but an alternate <a href="Root_directory" title="Root directory">root</a> of the main filesystem. Although it behaves like a "normal" filesystem, its contents are the various system files used by GFS2, and normally users do not need to ever look at it. The GFS2 utilities <a href="Mount_(computing)" title="Mount (computing)">mount</a> and unmount the meta filesystem as required, behind the scenes.

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<ul><li><a href="Comparison_of_file_systems" title="Comparison of file systems">Comparison of file systems</a></li>

<li><a href="Lustre_(file_system)" title="Lustre (file system)">Lustre</a></li>

<li><a href="GlusterFS" class="mw-redirect" title="GlusterFS">GlusterFS</a></li>

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<li><a href="Fencing_(computing)" title="Fencing (computing)">Fencing</a></li>

<li>Open-Sharedroot</li>

<li><a href="Ceph_(software)" title="Ceph (software)">Ceph (software)</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li>Red Hat <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Global_File_System_2/index.html">Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - Global File System 2</a></li>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/">GFS Project Page</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060315114748/http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/">Archived</a> 2006-03-15 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li>

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<li>EFS

<ul><li><a href="Encrypting_File_System" title="Encrypting File System">Encrypting File System</a></li>

<li><a href="Extent_File_System" title="Extent File System">Extent File System</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Episode_filesystem" title="Episode filesystem">Episode</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="ExFAT" title="ExFAT">exFAT</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Files-11" title="Files-11">Files-11</a></li>

<li><a href="Fossil_(file_system)" title="Fossil (file system)">Fossil</a></li>

<li><a href="HAMMER_(file_system)" title="HAMMER (file system)">HAMMER</a>

<ul><li><a href="HAMMER2" title="HAMMER2">HAMMER2</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Hierarchical_File_System_(Apple)" title="Hierarchical File System (Apple)">HFS</a> (<a href="Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">Classic Mac OS</a>)</li>

<li>MFS

<ul><li><a href="Macintosh_File_System" title="Macintosh File System">Macintosh File System</a></li>

<li><a href="TiVo_Media_File_System" title="TiVo Media File System">TiVo Media File System</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="MINIX_file_system" title="MINIX file system">MINIX</a></li>

<li><a href="NetWare_File_System" title="NetWare File System">NetWare File System</a></li>

<li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS</a>

<ul><li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS2</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="OneFS_distributed_file_system" title="OneFS distributed file system">OneFS</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenZFS" title="OpenZFS">OpenZFS</a></li>

<li><a href="ReiserFS" title="ReiserFS">ReiserFS</a>

<ul><li><a href="Reiser4" title="Reiser4">Reiser4</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Datalight#Reliance_family" title="Datalight">Reliance</a></li>

<li><a href="Datalight#Reliance_Nitro" title="Datalight">Reliance Nitro</a></li>

<li>SFS

<ul><li>Shared File System (<a href="VM_(operating_system)" title="VM (operating system)">VM</a>)</li>

<li><a href="Smart_File_System" title="Smart File System">Smart File System</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Soup_(Apple)" title="Soup (Apple)">Soup (Apple)</a></li>

<li><a href="UBIFS" title="UBIFS">UBIFS</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="Soft_updates" title="Soft updates">soft updates</a></li>

<li><a href="Write_Ahead_Physical_Block_Logging" title="Write Ahead Physical Block Logging">WAPBL</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Xiafs" title="Xiafs">Xiafs</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Optical_disc" title="Optical disc">Optical disc</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Flash_memory" title="Flash memory">Flash memory</a> and <a href="Solid-state_drive" title="Solid-state drive">SSD</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="ExFAT" title="ExFAT">exFAT</a></li>

<li><a href="EROFS" title="EROFS">EROFS</a></li>

</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="host-side_wear_leveling27" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">host-side <a href="Wear_leveling" title="Wear leveling">wear leveling</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="LogFS" title="LogFS">LogFS</a></li>

<li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS</a>

<ul><li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS2</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="YAFFS" title="YAFFS">YAFFS</a></li>

<li><a href="UBIFS" title="UBIFS">UBIFS</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Clustered_file_system#Distributed_file_systems" title="Clustered file system">Distributed parallel</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="BeeGFS" title="BeeGFS">BeeGFS</a></li>

<li><a href="Google_File_System" title="Google File System">Google File System</a></li>

<li><a href="OrangeFS" title="OrangeFS">OrangeFS</a></li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Network-attached_storage" title="Network-attached storage">NAS</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Andrew_File_System" title="Andrew File System">AFS</a> (<a href="OpenAFS" title="OpenAFS">OpenAFS</a>)</li>

<li><a href="Google_File_System" title="Google File System">Google File System</a></li>

<li><a href="Lustre_(file_system)" title="Lustre (file system)">Lustre</a></li>

<li><a href="Elliptics" title="Elliptics">POHMELFS</a></li>

<li><a href="Apache_Hadoop" title="Apache Hadoop">Hadoop</a></li>

<li><a href="SSHFS" title="SSHFS">SSHFS</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Specialized</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Boot_File_System" title="Boot File System">Boot File System</a></li>

<li><a href="Compact_Disc_File_System" title="Compact Disc File System">Compact Disc File System</a></li>

<li><a href="Cramfs" title="Cramfs">cramfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Davfs2" title="Davfs2">Davfs2</a></li>

<li><a href="EROFS" title="EROFS">EROFS</a></li>

<li><a href="FTPFS" title="FTPFS">FTPFS</a></li>

<li><a href="SquashFS" title="SquashFS">SquashFS</a></li>

<li><a href="FAT_filesystem_and_Linux" title="FAT filesystem and Linux">UMSDOS</a></li>

<li><a href="OverlayFS" title="OverlayFS">OverlayFS</a></li>

<li><a href="UnionFS" title="UnionFS">UnionFS</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pseudo</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Configfs" title="Configfs">configfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Device_file" title="Device file">devfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Debugfs" title="Debugfs">debugfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Kernfs_(BSD)" title="Kernfs (BSD)">kernfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Procfs" title="Procfs">procfs</a></li>

<li>specfs</li>

<li><a href="Sysfs" title="Sysfs">sysfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Tmpfs" title="Tmpfs">tmpfs</a></li>

<li><a href="WinFS" title="WinFS">WinFS</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Filesystem-level_encryption" title="Filesystem-level encryption">Encrypted</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="ECryptfs" title="ECryptfs">eCryptfs</a></li>

<li><a href="EncFS" title="EncFS">EncFS</a></li>

<li><a href="Rubberhose_(file_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubberhose (file system)">Rubberhose</a></li>

<li><a href="SSHFS" title="SSHFS">SSHFS</a></li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Types</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Clustered_file_system" title="Clustered file system">Clustered</a>

<ul><li><a href="Global_file_system" title="Global file system">Global</a></li>

<li><a href="Self-certifying_File_System" title="Self-certifying File System">Self-certifying</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Flash_file_system" title="Flash file system">Flash</a></li>

<li><a href="Journaling_file_system" title="Journaling file system">Journaling</a></li>

<li><a href="Log-structured_file_system" title="Log-structured file system">Log-structured</a></li>

<li><a href="Object_storage" title="Object storage">Object</a></li>

<li><a href="Record-oriented_filesystem" title="Record-oriented filesystem">Record-oriented</a></li>

<li><a href="Semantic_file_system" title="Semantic file system">Semantic</a></li>

<li><a href="Steganographic_file_system" title="Steganographic file system">Steganographic</a></li>

<li><a href="Synthetic_file_system" title="Synthetic file system">Synthetic</a></li>

<li><a href="Versioning_file_system" title="Versioning file system">Versioning</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Features</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Case_preservation" title="Case preservation">Case preservation</a></li>

<li><a href="Copy-on-write" title="Copy-on-write">Copy-on-write</a></li>

<li><a href="Data_deduplication" title="Data deduplication">Data deduplication</a></li>

<li><a href="Data_scrubbing" title="Data scrubbing">Data scrubbing</a></li>

<li><a href="Execute_in_place" title="Execute in place">Execute in place</a></li>

<li><a href="Extent_(file_systems)" title="Extent (file systems)">Extent</a></li>

<li><a href="File_attribute" title="File attribute">File attribute</a>

<ul><li><a href="Extended_file_attributes" title="Extended file attributes">Extended file attributes</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="File_change_log" title="File change log">File change log</a></li>

<li><a href="Inode" title="Inode">Inode</a></li>

<li>Links

<li><a href="Symbolic_link" title="Symbolic link">Symbolic</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Computer_access_control" title="Computer access control">Access control</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Access-control_list" title="Access-control list">Access-control list</a></li>

<li><a href="Filesystem-level_encryption" title="Filesystem-level encryption">Filesystem-level encryption</a></li>

<li><a href="File-system_permissions" title="File-system permissions">Permissions</a>

<ul><li><a href="Chmod" title="Chmod">Modes</a></li>

<li><a href="Sticky_bit" title="Sticky bit">Sticky bit</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Interface_(computing)" title="Interface (computing)">Interfaces</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="File_manager" title="File manager">File manager</a></li>

<li><a href="File_system_API" title="File system API">File system API</a>

<ul><li><a href="Installable_File_System" title="Installable File System">Installable File System</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Virtual_file_system" title="Virtual file system">Virtual file system</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_file_systems" title="List of file systems">Lists</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="List_of_cryptographic_file_systems" title="List of cryptographic file systems">Cryptographic</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_default_file_systems" title="List of default file systems">Default</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_log-structured_file_systems" title="List of log-structured file systems">Log-structured</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Layouts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Master_Boot_Record" class="mw-redirect" title="Master Boot Record">Master Boot Record</a></li>

<li><a href="GUID_Partition_Table" title="GUID Partition Table">GUID Partition Table</a></li>

<li><a href="Apple_Partition_Map" title="Apple Partition Map">Apple Partition Map</a></li></ul>

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