1. sudo apt-get install uuid-dev

2. Install FUSE
cd fuse-2.9.5/
./configure
make -j8
sudo make install

3. Install BPFS
cd bpfs
make

Creating a BPFS file system

BPFS can use a memory-mapped file/device or run in DRAM:

mkdir /tmp/bpfs

- To use a file/device:
  1. (File) Create the file. E.g., dd if=/dev/zero of=bpram.img bs=1M count=$N
  ($N=1024 to create 1GB file)
  2. Format the file system: ./mkfs.bpfs bpram.img
  3. Mount the file system: ./bpfs -f bpram.img -d /tmp/bpfs
  /tmp/bpfs is the mountpoint

- To use DRAM (no need to create a file and contents are lost at exit):
  1. ./bpfs -s $((N * 1024 * 1024)) -d /tmp/bpfs
  -d option to run bpfs in debug mode
  ($N=1024 to create 1GB filesystem)

4. To use the file system:
cd /tmp/bpfs
touch foo
echo "hello" >> foo
(Basically, you can issue file and directory operations as you normally do on any filesystem)

There are several configuration macros at the top of bpfs.h and bpfs.c.

5. Workloads for Macro benchmarks
- [httpd-2.0.63.tar.gz](https://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.0.63.tar.gz)
- [Linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2](https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2)