stau.space / dfs
Distributed File System written in C
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··· 17 17 $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LIB_SRC) $< -o $@ 18 18 19 19 $(BUILD): 20 + mkdir -p data 20 21 mkdir -p $(BUILD) 21 22 22 23 clean:
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··· 62 62 63 63 ## Usage 64 64 65 - First, you have to setup the project. 66 - 67 - ```sh 68 - make all 69 - ``` 65 + First, check out the different parts in the project: 70 66 71 67 This will compile all the necessary executables and put them in a directory 72 68 called: `./.build`. The executables provided are: ··· 176 172 177 173 Remember, this will put all the executables in a directory called `.build`. 178 174 179 - Then, launch the metadata server first! 175 + Then, you have to create the database: 180 176 177 + ```sh 178 + ./.build/createdb 179 + ``` 180 + 181 + Now, you can start launching things! First, you want to create the metadata 182 + server. Like this: 181 183 182 184 ```sh 183 185 ./.build/metadata-server 127.0.0.1 42069 184 186 ``` 185 187 186 - Leave this running in the background. Now launch several data nodes in other 187 - terminals: 188 + Leave this running in the background. Now, go to a different terminal and launch 189 + several data nodes in other terminals: 188 190 189 191 Terminal 1: 190 192 ```sh ··· 208 210 209 211 There is a `./test.sh` file that can help you test out your files. It will create 210 212 a `500MB` file. I tested this with files up to `5GB` so if you want to try that, 211 - just add another 0 to the `./test.sh` file. 213 + just add another 0 to the line in `./test.sh` that has the following: 214 + 215 + ```sh 216 + cat /dev/random | head -c5000000000 > 500MB.bin 217 + ```