samfs

simple distributed file system

server file : samd.c | client file : masd.c

Running Simple Distributed File System client-server using openstack/amazon cloud instance

• Create a cloud instance as described in earlier sections

• Install FUSE library on your local machine (not on cloud instance)

  $ sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev

• Download/copy File System code on your local machine

• Extract code from the archive and compile

  $ unzip samfs.zip

  $ cd samfs

  $ make

• Copy server binary i.e. ‘samd’ to cloud instance

  $ scp samd ubuntu@10.0.0.2:~/

• Run server binary on cloud instance

  $ ./samd –export 10.0.0.2 /home/ubuntu/

• Here in above command, sever exports its home directory which clients can access

• Create a new directory on your local machine to mount server directory

• Mount server directory to above created local file system directory

  $ mkdir /tmp/dst

  $ ./masd –mount 10.0.0.2 /tmp/dst

• Now whatever operations you perform on ‘/tmp/dst’ directory on client, they will be served by server on cloud instance