General Information CoreFS
is a very basic network file system built on top of FUSE. The file
system allows users to access files stored on the file server from
remote machines. The goal of this file system is to give file system
developers some form of basic distributed file system, which can be
later modified as per the implementor's requirement. We will provide
some core features - hence the name "coreFS". Hopefully, this file
system can prove to be good starting point for someone who is planning
to implement distributed file systems using FUSE.
Note, this
file system does not include any security functionalities. This is not
a file system to be deployed in practice as is; rather, it is for the
programmers to extend it as they wish. In the future, we will extend
coreFS to add some nice security features. There are several functions
missing from coreFS, which will be added in the next release. This is a
on-going implementation project.
coreFS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any form of warranty.
Version 1.0
Dependencies Requires FUSE library and modules. See http://fuse.sourceforge.net/. This code was tested with version 2.5.3.
How To Use Like most of the file systems using FUSE 1) run 'bin/dclient -d mnt' 2) ls -al mnt/
Currently we simply export the root of the file system!
Security **NONE**
TODO The list is endless, for now: - Export only appropriate directories and perform path checking - Make client multi-threaded to allow asynchronous calls - Support all system calls - Implement caching - Security - Handle uid and gid in a better way
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material is based upon work supported by the National Science
Foundation under Grant No. 0448423 and 0621462 and DTC
Intelligent Storage Consortium (DISC). Any opinions, findings and
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