Distributed hybrid-storage partially mountable file system
Alexandru Radovici, Elena‐Simona Apostol · International Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2009
We have extended the classical approach of a disk partition to a distributed environment. In this way, ? NetFS partition is composed out of several storage fs_nodes that are stored on different type of media and/or computer systems. The file system can be partially mounted, meaning that mounting can be done using only a subset of the fs_nodes. Due to the design of this kind of system, a partition can be dynamically extended or shrunk while it is mounted without any data loss. Our paper presents the implementation of this file system using FUSE (which in term offers some advantages - usage of library functions, stability, portability), the problems encountered and some future work yet to be done.