This paper presents a distributed file-system for the present day medium-sized network. Existing servers and workstations pool their unused storage resources to form a communal share. Erasure codes provide fault tolerance and eliminate the need for replication. Middleware libraries facilitate object routing on an overlay network.
Index Terms:
distributed file-system, global-storage, erasure code
Citation:
Micah Galizia, Hanan Lutfiyya, "Improving Efficiency and Performance of Distributed File-Systems," nca, pp.249-252, 2008 Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, 2008