Re: [fuse-devel] New FUSE based filesystem: CORNFS - v0.0.0.2 available.

[Shawn R. <sha...@gm...>]

Sounds cool, I've been wondering for years when somebody was going to
get around to this.

On 7/25/05, Ian C. Blenke <icb...@nk...> wrote:
> I've been working on a quick and dirty FUSE filesystem that has reached
> a usable state over the past couple of days.
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>     http://ian.blenke.com/projects/cornfs/cornfs.html
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> CORNFS is an attempt at creating a distributed filesystem that mirrors N
> copies of files across a group of M number of servers.
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> Everything in CORNFS is stored as a file. Remote filesystems are mounted
> over a network filesystem like NFS/SHFS/SSHFS. Rather than mirroring at
> the volume or block level, CORNFS mirrors at the file level, tracking
> what servers a file is mirrored on.
> CORNFS works with locally cached copies of files and a central metadata
> state directory.
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> I've not found anything else quite like it, and this promises to server
> our needs well.
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> If there is any interest in the FUSE development community, I wouldn't
> mind starting a SourceForge project for it.
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>  - Ian C. Blenke <icb...@nk...> <ia...@bl...> http://ian.blenke.co=
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