Self-Stabilizing Replication File System Project Ben-Gurion University Computer Science Department

srFS is a global file system designed to be distributed geographicly over multiple locations and provide a consistent, high available durable infrastructure for information.

Started as a research project into file systems and self-stabilization in Ben Gurion University of the Negev Department of Computer Science, the project aims to integrate self-stabilization methods and algorithms into the file (and operation) systems to provide a system with a desired behaviour in the presence of transient faults.

Based on layered self-stabilizing algorithms, provide a tree replication structure based on auto-discovery of servers using local and global IP multicasting. The tree structure is providing the command and timing infrastruture required for a distributed file system.

A working prototype has been developed to show the feasiblity of self-stabilzing algorithms within the operation system.

Last modified on 20/09/2002 by Ronen Kat.