Rob Latham <r...@mcs.anl.gov> writes: >> [I wonder why ANL apparently dumped PVFS but I probably shouldn't ask.] > > No harm in asking.
I wrongly guessed it was political! > This is getting a bit off topic for an OpenMPI list > but OMPIO and ROMIO both support PVFS so perhaps it's interesting to > some. At least to me, and I think not too off-topic from an MPI-IO angle. Thanks for taking the time to record it. PVFS seems valuable particularly for the ability to spin up a decent MPI-IO filesystem on node local disks in userland. > PVFS still lives, now branded "OrangeFS". The folks at Clemson are > working towards getting PVFS support into the linux > kernel. (http://lwn.net/Articles/657333/ : Linus says "the code > doesn't look obviously horrible" -- how's *that* for an endorsement) Yes, but perhaps he doesn't realize it's basically a userland filesystem, and thus a "toy" (quoted somewhere by Jeff Darcy, if I recall correctly).
