---+ DFS: Federative, disconnected, peer-to-peer filesystem for Grid4All ---++ Overview [[http://www.grid4all.eu][Grid4All]] is an FP6 project funded by the European Union. The main objective of the project is to research and develop a _democratic_ Grid, that enables individual users to draw upon internet resources for their applications without having to invest in IT infrastructure. Read [[AboutGrid4All][about Grid4All]]. Our team is involved in Grid4All data storage, researching and developing DFS, a peer-to-peer distributed filesystem with a modern and _democratic_ character, that is most suitable for the project. Currently, it is in an early prototype status. The most prominent features of DFS are: * Peer-to-peer, web-like navigation. Other's computers are accessible just by typing their address in the path. * Federation of files. You can create workspaces and populate them by linking in files anywhere on the internet. * Federation of storage. Peers can contribute storage to each other, creating storage pools. Peers create files using this distributed pooled storage. * Disconnected operation. Files are locally cached and remain available when disconnected from the network. Synchronisation is done automatically, if conflicts do not occur. * Notifications for file modifications and publish-subscribe messaging * Integration with the OS. DFS can be mounted in Linux and !MacOS. Read an article on [[DFSArch][DFS architecture]] <!-- PERCENT INCLUDE{"CSLab.DFSArch"}% --> ---++ Publications * A. Chazapis, G. Tsoukalas, G. Verigakis, K. Kourtis, A. Sotiropoulos and N. Koziris, *"Global-scale peer-to-peer file services with DFS,"* in _Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007)_, Austin, TX, USA, September 2007 ![[[http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/~chazapis/papers/chazapis-grid2007.pdf][pdf]]]
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