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What does the “V\ in PVFS stand for?

April 26, 2017pvfs stand

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What does the “V\ in PVFS stand for?

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The “V” in PVFS stands for virtual. This is a holdover from the original (PVFS1) project that built a parallel file system on top of local file systems, which we still do now. It isn’t meant to imply virtualization of storage, although that is sort of what the file system does.