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The PVFS community holds to the open source practice that fosters community collaboration. We encourage PVFS users and administrators to discuss their setup, ideas, or problems via the following channels.

PVFS2 Users List

The users mailing list is provided for general purpose discussion, configuration, and bug reporting. We encourage users to provide feedback on their own PVFS setups and configurations that can be useful to the entire community. When emailing the users list with questions, please include your hardware setup (network, storage, etc.) and the output of the pvfs2-statfs utility. Also, if your question is in regard to a failure, check for related messages in the output of the client's system log, and the pvfs2-server.log and pvfs2-client.log files, and send that output to us as well. This will allow us to directly address your questions.

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PVFS2 Developers List

The PVFS developer's mailing list is available for those interested in contributing to the PVFS project. The developers list is the best way to get in touch with us if you wish to contribute to PVFS. Patches to PVFS source for new features or bug fixes, should be posted to this list.

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Bug Reports

The PVFS project uses Trac to manage bug reports and feature requests. Please review the list of submitted tickets before submitting a new ticket for your own bug report or feature request.

#pvfs2 IRC channel

An IRC channel for PVFS is hosted on freenode.net, allowing users and developers to ask questions, get to know the developers, or just provide feedback. The freenode website has info on how to access the freenode irc servers. Once you have connected to the IRC server, join the #pvfs2 channel.

Developer and Contributor Information

We are always looking for help with the Parallel Virtual File System project. If you have any ideas, suggestions, bug reports, bug fixes, or want to help implement a new feature, please let us know. PVFS is distributed under the LGPL license and the source code is readily available. If you are interested in helping out or simply tracking PVFS development process please read on.

Source Code Access

We manage the source code for all of the PVFS components using CVS. For more information on how to use CVS, please check your local documentation or visit the CVS web site. We provide anonymous read only access to all of the current PVFS code.

DO NOT USE CODE FROM CVS IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT!

Access to the CVS repository is provided for people interested in experimenting with PVFS or developing new features. We do not guarantee that the code in CVS works at all, or that your data is safe using it. Support is only provided for the latest stable releases, which can be downloaded from the download section. That is the code that you should choose for every day use.

  • To check out the latest pvfs2 tree:

    cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.parl.clemson.edu:/anoncvs login

    (use any password)

    cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.parl.clemson.edu:/anoncvs co pvfs2

    cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.parl.clemson.edu:/anoncvs logout

Online Source Browsing

View the PVFS source code, change logs, and create diffs via the Fisheye web interface.

Regression Tests

PVFS tests are run on a daily basis both for code under development as well as released versions. We include a number of well known filesystem stress tests and benchmarks in our regular testing. The PVFS Tinderbox page has further information.
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