jibsil/distrifs

Distributed, efficient and secure filesystem coded in Go

DistriFS: efficient, secure, decentralized filesystem

DistriFS is a filesystem allowing for decentralized access to files of your choice through a file network. It is comparable to torrenting, IPFS and Storj. An indexer-server approach is used for security and speed. You may learn more about precisely how the software works in the "Academic Paper" section or by reading the respective README.md files in the sub-folders.

Running a Node

Participating in the DistriFS network is easy! Releases are built every minor version in Github Releases for Windows, macOS and Linux. Configure and run a server, then register it on the official indexer to start. If you want to run your own indexer, those programs are also available.

More information is available in the server folder's README.md

Academic Paper

This work is part of academic research titled "DistriFS: A Platform and User Agnostic Approach to Dataset Distribution". It is posted on arXiv is published in the Journal of Open Source Software

Contributing

Pull requests are always open, for both bugfixes and new features! Feedback and bug reports are also open via GitHub Issues - please remember to adhere to our Code of Conduct in Issues. For support, please contact me through the contacts in my bio.

Testing

Unit tests are present for every route on the server and indexer as of commit 63b61d4. You can run the tests by using the command go test ./... in the server and indexer folders to test each component.

License

DistriFS is a free-to-use academic work. It is licensed under the MIT license and is free to use in any project, commercial or noncommerical.

distrifs's Issues

JOSS

Hi @JIBSIL ,

Thank for this project!

I'm opening this issue to track my review in your repo.
These are my part my observations and part JOSS requirements.

JOSS Requirements

• Automated unit/integration/e2e Tests for the system you've developed.
• Community Guidelines , while this is a fairly straightforward project and contributing would be easy. It's nicer for new people to have these guidelines

Personal Observations

• The justification and failure reasons for BitTorrent as well as IPFS is very interesting and reasonable. But I'm curious, with way that DistriFS is setup right now how is it "distributed"? how would a new server coming up, discover other servers in the network? how would they share files? how does encryption work in that scenario?
• I spent some time with the code, but couldn't confirm that there were any authorization system for downloading or uploading the file. Would love to know if I'm wrong. If not, what is the logic behind having a cryptography scheme and back and forth?

JOSS issue thread: openjournals/joss-reviews#6625