Moose File System

Moose File System
Developer(s)Jakub Kruszona-Zawadzki[1] / Core Technology[2]
Initial release30 May 2008; 16 years ago (2008-05-30)[3] (v. 1.5.0[4])
Stable release
3.0.116-1 / 12 August 2021; 3 years ago (2021-08-12)[5][6][7]
Preview release
3.0.116-1 / 12 August 2021; 3 years ago (2021-08-12)[5][6][7]
Repository
Operating systemLinux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS, Solaris, OpenIndiana,[8]
TypeDistributed file system
LicenseGPLv2 / proprietary
Websitehttps://moosefs.com

Moose File System (MooseFS) is an open-source, POSIX-compliant distributed file system developed by Core Technology. MooseFS aims to be fault-tolerant, highly available, highly performing, scalable general-purpose network distributed file system for data centers. Initially proprietary software, it was released to the public as open source on May 30, 2008.

Currently two editions of MooseFS are available:

  • MooseFS - released under GPLv2 license,
  • MooseFS Professional Edition (MooseFS Pro) - release under proprietary license in binary packages form.
  1. ^ Contributors to moosefs/moosefs · GitHub
  2. ^ "About us - Core Technology - MooseFS fault tolerant network distributed file system". Core Technology.
  3. ^ "Date of the first public release: 2008-05-30" https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs/blob/master/README.md
  4. ^ "MooseFS 1.5 (2008-05-30)" https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs/blob/master/NEWS
  5. ^ a b "Support – documentation, status and best practices – MooseFS".
  6. ^ a b "moosefs/NEWS at master · moosefs/moosefs". GitHub. 14 July 2022.
  7. ^ a b "Releases · moosefs/moosefs". GitHub.
  8. ^ "We also successfully compiled MooseFS from sources on OpenIndiana Hipster." https://moosefs.com/download.html Archived 2016-03-23 at the Wayback Machine