GMount: Build your grid file system on the fly

By GMount, non-privilege users can easily and quickly build ad-hoc distributed file systems on any machines reachable via SSH. In the wide-area Grid environments, it can scale to hundreds of nodes and works with NAT or firewall. Given the network topology, the metadata operations of file system are...

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Main Authors: Nan Dun, Taura, K., Yonezawa, A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Construction industry
File systems
Fires
Fuses
Network topology
Pediatrics
Servers
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Summary:By GMount, non-privilege users can easily and quickly build ad-hoc distributed file systems on any machines reachable via SSH. In the wide-area Grid environments, it can scale to hundreds of nodes and works with NAT or firewall. Given the network topology, the metadata operations of file system are locality-aware. GMount can be effortlessly deployed in multiple clusters without superuser privilege. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of GMount, and shows its viability in a large scale Grid platform with over 300 nodes spread across 11 clusters.
ISSN:2152-1085
2152-1093
DOI:10.1109/GRID.2008.4662817