* Certificate-based security with LDAP interface support
Extended documentation
History
OrangeFS emerged as a development branch of PVFS2, so much of its history is shared with the history of PVFS. Spanning twenty years, the extensive history behind OrangeFS is summarized in the time line below. A development branch is a new direction in development. The OrangeFS branch was begun in 2007, when leaders in the PVFS2 user community determined that:
Many were satisfied with the design goals of PVFS2 and needed it to remain relatively unchanged for future stability
Others envisioned PVFS2 as a foundation on which to build an entirely new set of design objectives for more advanced applications of the future.
This is why OrangeFS is often described as the next generation of PVFS2. ;1993 ;1994 ;Late 1994''' ;1997 ;1999 ;2003 ;2005 ;2007 ;2008 ;Fall 2010 ;Spring 2011: OrangeFS 2.8.4 released ;September 2011: OrangeFS adds Windows client ;February 2012: OrangeFS 2.8.5 released ;June 2012: OrangeFS 2.8.6 released, offering improved performance, web clients and direct-interface libraries. The new OrangeFS Web pack provides integrated support for WebDAV and S3. ;January 2013: OrangeFS 2.8.7 released ;May 2013: OrangeFS available on Amazon Web Services marketplace. OrangeFS 2.9 Beta Version available, adding two new security modes and allowing distribution of directory entries among multiple data servers. ;April 2014: OrangeFS 2.8.8 released adding shared mmap support, JNI support for Hadoop Ecosystem Applications supporting direct replacement of HDFS ;November 2014: OrangeFS 2.9.0 released adding support for distributed metadata for directory entries using an extensible hashing algorithm modeled after giga+, POSIX backward compatible capability base security supporting multiple modes. ;January 2015: OrangeFS 2.9.1 released ;March 2015: OrangeFS 2.9.2 released ;June 2015: OrangeFS 2.9.3 released ;November 2015: OrangeFS included in CloudyCluster 1.0 release on AWS ;May 2016: OrangeFS supported in Linux Kernel 4.6 ;October 2017: 2.9.6 Released ;January 2018: 2.9.7 Released, OrangeFS rpm included in the Fedora distribution ;February 2019: CloudyCluster v2 released on AWS marketplace featuring OrangeFS ;June 2019: CloudyCluster v2 released on GCP featuring OrangeFS ;July 2019: OreangeFS is integrated with the Linux page cache in Linux kernel 5.2 ;January 2020: OrangeFS interim fix for write after open issues, merged into the Linux kernel 5.5
