Versity announces next generation open source archiving filesystem

Versity announces next generation open source archiving filesystem.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 17, 2018 Versity Software, the leader in large
scale data archiving software, today announced that it has open sourced
ScoutFS, a new scale out archiving filesystem.

The ScoutFS project was started in 2016, to address the rapidly growing
demand for larger POSIX namespaces and faster metadata processing.  The
design goal for ScoutFS includes the ability to store up to one trillion
files in a single namespace by efficiently distributing metadata handling
across a scale out cluster of commodity compute nodes.

ScoutFS is a POSIX compliant clustered filesystem implemented in the Linux
kernel, and has been released under the GPLv2 open source license.

ScoutFS is the first GPL archiving file system ever released, creating an
inherently safer and more user friendly option for storing archival data
where accessibility over very large time scales, and the removal of vendor
specific risk is a key consideration.

“The archival storage, data recovery, and data protection field takes an
important step forward today with the release of the ScoutFS file system.
The ability to store and manage exabyte scale data collections at a low
cost is essential for the advancement of science and industry. We are
pleased to contribute ScoutFS to the open source community”, said Bruce
Gilpin, CEO of Versity.

“With the amount of metadata growing exponentially, a filesystem that can
scale to ultra large file counts and index metadata is very important to
the open source storage ecosystem”, said Zach Brown, the lead filesystems
engineer at Versity. “The ScoutFS architecture keeps things simple while
maintaining POSIX compliance, handles small files well, and maximizes
performance for bandwidth, all features that are needed with challenging
exascale workloads.”

Zach will be attending the 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference in Vancouver,
November 13-15. For meeting requests, contact us at info@versity.com.

For more information on the ScoutFS filesystem, visit www.scoutfs.org

About Versity

Versity is the only independent provider of advanced, scalable, high
throughput software defined archiving storage technology products.
Organizations leverage the Versity Storage Manager to implement data
preservation strategies for long term storage, and retrieval of massive
data stores both on premise and in the cloud. Versity serves customers in
North America, Europe, India, and the Middle East including leading public
and private entities in financial services, education, research, aerospace,
energy, entertainment, web services, and publishing.  For more information
go to www.versity.com


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Meghan McClelland
VP Product
versity.com