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In computing, the Global File System 2 (GFS2) is a shared-disk file system for Linux computer clusters. GFS2 allows all members of a cluster to have direct concurrent access to the same shared block storage , in contrast to distributed file systems which distribute data throughout the cluster.
In computer storage, a global file system is a distributed file system that can be accessed from multiple locations, typically across a wide-area network, and provides concurrent access to a global namespace from all locations.
Google File System (GFS or GoogleFS, not to be confused with the GFS Linux file system) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware.
GFS2: 255 bytes Any byte except NUL [ce] No limit defined [cf] 100 ...
GPFS (General Parallel File System, brand name IBM Storage Scale and previously IBM Spectrum Scale) [1] is a high-performance clustered file system software developed by IBM. ...
Support for up to 128 nodes (16 nodes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, and 6) NFS (Unix) /SMB /GFS /GFS2 (Multiple Operating systems) File system failover support
GFS Projects (Geoff's Flying Saucer), a British aerospace company; Girls' Friendly Society, a charity in the UK; GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS), an American semiconductor manufacturing company
Linux originally used the MINIX file system, but it had a number of limitations. For example, the length of filenames was limited to 14 characters and the partition size was limited to 64 MB.