WheelFS

changelog_0.1-2

2009-07-31T16:54:55-04:00

* Fri Jul 31 2009 Jeremy Stribling - Release 0.1-2: Fix for lease batching bug that caused busy wait and crash

command_line

2009-07-07T19:05:30-04:00

Start the configuration servers Start the wfs_rsm_cserver binary on all the desired configuration servers. Hopefully we'll write some documentation soon, but for now see wfs_rsm_cserver --help for the available options. You may want to start it as a background process using nohup for a long-running system or experiment.

compilation_prerequisites

2009-07-07T16:48:03-04:00

Here's a no-frills list of things you might need to compile WheelFS. It's still under development, let us know if you find that you need something not listed here. * Operating system: Linux/Mac/FreeBSD (though we've tested it most heavily on Linux) * libtool/automake/make * FUSE (fuse and fuse-devel packages) * openssl-devel * modified libssh for security-enabled systems

compile

2009-04-16T14:07:14-04:00

Here's a quick list of steps for compiling WheelFS as an out-of-place build on a Linux system. It should work on MacOS and FreeBSD as well (potentially with minor tweaks): * Run ./setup in the top-level directory of the WheelFS distribution (let's say you put the source code in ~/src/wfs). * Create an empty build directory somewhere, and cd into it. * Run ~/src/wfs/configure (substituting your WheelFS source directory in, obviously). * Run make and cross your fingers.

distribution

2009-07-07T16:53:54-04:00

All you need to distribute when deploying WheelFS on a collection of nodes are the main binaries: * fs/wfs * fs/wfs_server (only needed for server-only nodes) * fs/wfs_fuse_client (only needed for client-only nodes) * cserver/wfs_rsm_cserver (only needed for configuration nodes)

documentation

2009-08-06T15:31:55-04:00

Before you get started There are three basic building blocks for a full WheelFS setup: * Storage servers: A node that is responsible for storing and serving files and directories. * Clients: A node that mounts WheelFS via FUSE, and communicates with storage nodes to access and update files and directories, on behalf of some user or application. * Configuration servers: A node that keeps track of all the storage nodes in a WheelFS network.

download

2009-07-31T16:49:09-04:00

WheelFS PlanetLab client packages wfs-client-pl-0.1-2.i386.rpm (July 31, 2009) See planetlab_nodes for installation instructions. Note that this includes our modified libssh shared library, and PlanetLab's reroutemount vsys wrapper shared library. It does not include the FUSE libraries that are required for installation (see below).

people

2009-06-05T11:12:58-04:00

WheelFS was created in the PDOS research group in CSAIL at MIT, and the NEWS research group in the CS department at NYU. We are: * Jeremy Stribling * Yair Sovran * Irene Zhang * Xavid Pretzer * Jinyang Li * Frans Kaashoek * Robert Morris

publications

2009-08-31T16:01:08-04:00

Refereed publications about the design and implementation of WheelFS: Flexible, Wide-Area Storage for Distributed Systems with WheelFS -- (PDF | PS | BibTeX) Jeremy Stribling, Yair Sovran, Irene Zhang, Xavid Pretzer, Jinyang Li, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Robert Morris. In the Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09), Boston, MA, April 2009.

start

2009-03-10T15:45:00-04:00

wheelfs

2009-03-11T18:49:08-04:00

WheelFS is a FUSE-based distributed file system that offers flexible wide-area storage for distributed applications. Different applications have different needs from their storage system, and WheelFS gives applications the control they need via semantic cues. Applications can embed these cues directly into the pathname of its files to direct the behavior of WheelFS. WheelFS is free and open-source software, released under the MIT license.