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diff --git a/network/beegfs/README b/network/beegfs/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0ba7cbe88c --- /dev/null +++ b/network/beegfs/README @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +BeeGFS aka. beegfs is a parallel filesystem that runs on +vanilla Linux kernel. +Officially supported filesystems for underlying local storage are +ext4, xfs, and zfs. + +BeeGFS can be accessed through TCP and RDMA links. + +Each file on beegfs can be stored in a specific storage pool. +Hard links and data/metadata mirroring are supported. + +Authorization is required for production use of features such as +mirroring, quota enforcement (not quota tracking), and +more than one storage pools, etc. +Refer to the file "LICENSE.txt" for details. + +openzfs is an optional run-time dependency. + +Set BEEGFS_CTL_SUID to YES to install the beegfs-ctl program +setUID to root: + + env BEEGFS_CTL_SETUID=YES ./beegfs.SlackBuild + +The client driver is kernel-dependent, so a re-compile of +this package is necessary for client nodes after a kernel-update. + +Set KERNEL to the kernel version the client driver to be built for: + + env KERNEL=5.15.117 ./beegfs.SlackBuild + +The default ./beegfs.SlackBuild is equivalent to + + env BEEGFS_CTL_SETUID=NO KERNEL=`uname -r` ./beegfs.SlackBuild |