Pseudo Distributed File System

• Student: Rukmangathan Balakrishnan 7/2000, now at CISCO Systems in San Jose, CA.
• Purpose: Design and implement a Locus-like distributed file system using Unix processes.
• Method: Design and implement a protocol based on TCP connecting user sites, storage sites, and synchronization sites. Some of the code is based on Linux VFS and NFS version 2.
• What the student learned
  1. Design and implementation of a complex project
  2. Intricacies involved in a distributed file system
  3. Technical writing skills in preparing and packaging the resulting code.