We wanted to take a minute and let the PVFS/OrangeFS community have an opportunity to preview the windows client for OrangeFS. (the source is in CVS, but I imagine most people don't have a windows build environment sitting around). We appreciate any feedback or ideas...
Here are the links and feature list: Windows Client Draft Documentation: http://orangefs.org/download/OrangeFSClient.pdf Windows Self-extracting Installers: http://orangefs.org/download/orangefs-client-win32.exe http://orangefs.org/download/orangefs-client-win64.exe http://orangefs.org/download/setup.iss (only used for silent installs) The OrangeFS Windows Client currently supports 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows Vista, 7, Server 2008, 2008 R2 (except for Server Core). In our preliminary testing it performs nearly as fast as Linux. Windows client features: - Allows transparent access to OrangeFS; no APIs or additional programming needed - Mounts OrangeFS file systems in the same way as standard drives - View files through Windows Explorer, Command Prompt, etc. - Access files programmatically through standard functional calls, e.g. fopen() in C - Supports parallel-programming APIs like MPICH2 - Pre-built binary installation with installer in addition to open source - Map Windows users (AD or local) to OrangeFS users, with identical permissions - Certificate-based authentication and user mapping - LDAP-based security and user mapping; compatible with AD - Runs as a standard Windows service - Supports Symbolic Links (following, not creating) Some Caveats: - Currently you can only mount a single file system at a time. - UNC Paths are not currently supported, so you have to select a fixed drive letter on the client (or the client can take the next available). enjoy, -boyd
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