Mountable Drive (FUSE Integration)

Abstract

Goal of this project is to provide utility that will give users ability to interact with Storj network. Mounted directory will behave like any other directory and will give easy access to the network for less experienced users.

Current Status

The current implementation is not production ready. Its build on the top of libuplink. It provides wide set of functionalities but it's poorly tested and requires more work to make it independent from our main code repository.

Supported platforms:

Linux (mainly tested)
OSX (not tested, but should work)
Windows (not working)

Utility is called storj-mount and it's mounting existing bucket to empty directory on file system. With current version storj-mount is reusing uplink configuration directory.

Example usage: storj-mount sj://bucket-with-songs ~/my-music

Functions

Implemented

copy file from/to mounted bucket
copy directory from/to mounted bucket
open file from mounted bucket (supports streaming)
create a directory (also nested directories)
get file attributes
removing files/directories

Not Implemented

create file in mounted bucket
append/modify existing file
rename file/directory
move file/directory

Potential Issues

Thread safety - file handles may have concurrent reads and writes and internal state should probably be protected by mutexes
Nonsequential reads and writes - the offset of each request must be checked and handled appropriately. Supporting nonsequential writes is out of scope for this project, and should be handled if an unexpected offset comes in by throwing an error.

Next steps

bugfixing/polishing implementation
automatic tests
implementing missing functions
support for Windows

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