In this video from the Storage Developer Conference, Gary Grider from LANL presents: MarFS – A Scalable Near-POSIX File System over Cloud Objects for HPC Cool Storage. “Many computing sites need ...

Distributed file system developer Alluxio Inc. today added interfaces to Posix and Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage to its open-source Data Orchestration Platform, in a bid to make it easier for b ...

"We wanted to get away from the complexity of POSIX for data, yet retain the parts of POSIX that people are used to (metadata manipulation). By divorcing ourselves from the complications of ensuring a ...

And where Posix file systems have dozens of file system functions, object storage has just a few, such as PUT (a write), GET (a read), DELETE and HEAD (which returns metadata).

POSIX is based on UNIX, a well-established technology dating back to the early 1970s. POSIX defines a standard way for an application to interface to the operating system. The original POSIX standard ...

9.5 OS Standards Example: POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) As introduced in Chapter 2, standards may greatly impact the design of a system component—and OSs are no different. One of the key ...