OCFS

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OCFS
Developer Oracle Corporation
Full name Oracle Cluster File System
Introduced 2006 (Linux 2.6.16)
Limits
Max file size 4 PB (OCFS2) [1]
Max filename length 255 bytes
Max volume size 4 PB (OCFS2) [2]
Allowed characters in filenames All except NULL
Features
Dates recorded
  • ctime
  • mtime
  • atime
Supported operating systems Linux

OCFS stands for Oracle Cluster File System. It 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 database files for clustered databases. Because of that it was not an 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 more features have been included into ocfs2 especially access control lists and quota.[1]

OCFS2 uses a distributed lock manager which resembles the OpenVMS DLM but is much simpler.[2]

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Supported operating systems: Linux and Windows

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  1. ^ Currently limited to 16TiB since it uses the Linux JBD
  2. ^ Currently limited to 16TiB since it uses the Linux JBD


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