Distributed file system. Innopolis University 2019

Team: Amir Subaev (SB), Nikita Nigmatullin (SB), Salavat Dinmukhametov (SB)

The Distributed File System (DFS) is a file system with data stored on a server. The data is accessed and processed as if it was stored on the local client machine. The DFS makes it convenient to share information and files among users on a network.

Project installation

Used technologies:

• Python3 - programming language
• Requests - library for http requests
• Flask - web framework
• Pickledb - small file database

Installation for Debian:

apt install python3
apt install python3-pip
pip3 install requests pickledb flask

git clone https://github.com/Nnigmat/my_first_ds_project && cd my_first_ds_project

Project starting

We have nameserver and storage server. To start nameserver:

cd nameserver/ && python3 app.py

Before starting storage server we need to specify the IP address or DNS name in the storage/app.py

cd storage/ && python3 app.py

Architecture

Nameserver and client