octopus

Octopus: an RDMA-enabled distributed persistent memory file system

Please read the following paper for more details: Youyou Lu, Jiwu Shu, Youmin Chen. "Octopus: an RDMA-enabled distributed persistent memory file system", in USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC'17), 2017

WARNING: The code can only used for academic research.

Installation:

• OS: Fedora
• Dependencies: fuse-devel, cryptopp-devel，boost-devel，mpicxx，g++（4.9 and higher），libibverbs，java

Build Octopus:

• create a new folder "build"
• run "cmake .. & make -j"

• dmfs: octopus server
• mpibw: data I/O test
• mpitest: metadata

Octopus support two modes: fuse and library:

• Library: refer to the usage of src/client/nrfs.h and mpibw/mpitest
• FUSE (fusenrfs): octopus client over fuse -- run "./fusenrfs -f -o direct_io /mnt/dmfs"

Configuration: conf.xml: configuration of the cluster

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