OCFS2

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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.

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OCFS2
Developer(s)Oracle Corporation
Full nameOracle Cluster file System
IntroducedMarch 2006 with Linux 2.6.16
Limits
Max volume size4 PB (OCFS2)[1]
Max file size4 PB (OCFS2)[1]
Max filename length255 bytes
Allowed filename
characters
All bytes except NUL and '/'
Features
Dates recordedmodification (mtime), attribute modification (ctime), access (atime)
File system
permissions
Unix permissions, ACLs and arbitrary security attributes (Linux 2.6 and later)
Transparent
compression
No
Transparent
encryption
No
Data deduplicationNo
Copy-on-writeYes
Other
Supported
operating systems
Linux
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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.[2][3]

OCFS2 used a distributed lock manager which resembles the OpenVMS DLM but is much simpler.[4] Oracle announced version 1.6 in November 2010 which included a copy on write feature called reflink.[5]

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