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GekkoFS

May 19, 2025

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GekkoFS is a node-local, distributed, ephemeral, user-space file system developed by BSC and JGU by Toni Cortes and André Brinkmann in 2020.1

It relies on the following technologies:

  • An intercept library to enable use of the POSIX I/O interface from userspace
  • Mercury for RPCs
  • RocksDB for its metadata layer

Footnotes

  1. GekkoFS — A Temporary Burst Buffer File System for HPC Applications | Journal of Computer Science and Technology ↩


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