Title :
GMount: Build your grid file system on the fly
Author :
Dun, Nan ; Taura, Kenjiro ; Yonezawa, Akinori
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo
fDate :
Sept. 29 2008-Oct. 1 2008
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
file organisation; grid computing; GMount; SSH; ad hoc distributed file systems; grid environment; grid file system; grid platform; metadata operation; network topology; Distributed computing; File servers; File systems; Fuses; Information science; Kernel; Large-scale systems; Linux; Network address translation; Network topology;
Conference_Titel :
Grid Computing, 2008 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tsukuba
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2578-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2579-2
DOI :
10.1109/GRID.2008.4662817