You might want to first read about various distributed file systems like andrew, CODA, intermezzo, before you start designing your own.
NFS is also a distributed file system. You have to ask yourself what are the goals of your distributed file system? Why NFS is not sufficient? (or is it?) Amitay. On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 00:43, Nikhil Karkera wrote: > Hi, > > We need to create a distributed file system as part of an academic > project. We'll be making the system an abstraction over the > GNU/Linux FS. The user needs to start up a shell that we provide, > and then he is on the DFS. The DFS is spread across about 8 > machines in a LAN. > > Since this is an abstraction over an existing FS, implementation > details a not relevant. However, we were wondering over what would > be a sound policy of data distribution across the machines? If a > user creates a new file, how does the system decide on which > machine to actually store it? Storing on the m/c that has maximum > free space seems logical, but at the same time a lame policy (or > is it the best way?). > > Currently we are not considering fault tolerance, i.e. each file > is stored at a single place (no duplicates). However, if anyone > could, please do shed some light on that as well. > > Warm Regards, > Nikhil. > > PS: We are using PVM and pthreads for programming. > _______________________________________________________________________ > Odomos - the only mosquito protection outside 4 walls - > Click here to know more! > http://r.rediff.com/r?http://clients.rediff.com/odomos/Odomos.htm&&odomos&&wn > -- It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
