Title :
GMount: An Ad Hoc and Locality-Aware Distributed File System by Using SSH and FUSE
Author :
Dun, Nan ; Taura, Kenjiro ; Yonezawa, Akinori
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo
Abstract :
Developing and deploying distributed file system has been important for the Grid computing. By GMount, non-privileged users can instantaneously and effortlessly build a distributed file system on arbitrary machines that are reachable via SSH. It is scalable to hundreds of nodes in the wide-area Grid environments and adapts to NAT/Firewall. Unlike conventional distributed file systems, GMount can directly harness local file systems of each node without importing/exporting application data and utilize the network topology to make the metadata operations locality-aware. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of GMount by using two popular modules: SSH and FUSE. We demonstrate its viability and locality-aware metadata operation performance in a large scale Grid with over 320 nodes spreading across 12 clusters that are connected by heterogeneous wide-area links.
Keywords :
file organisation; grid computing; mobile computing; FUSE; GMount; SSH; grid computing; locality-aware distributed file system; metadata operations locality-aware; network topology; Distributed computing; File servers; File systems; Fuses; Grid computing; Local area networks; Network address translation; Network servers; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Distributed file system; FUSE; Grid; SSH; ad-hoc; locality-aware; user-level;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2009. CCGRID '09. 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3935-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3622-4
DOI :
10.1109/CCGRID.2009.72
