FBFS: Facebook Filesystem

Final project for CS137: Filesystems.

Installation

Requirements:

• C++ compiler with C++11 support
• CMake
• FUSE 2.6
• Boost system and filesystem libraries
• Qt5 WebKit module

Once the requirements are met, install FBFS by entering the following commands into a terminal:

cmake .
make

The binary produced will be called fbfs.

Running FBFS

Open a terminal and run FBFS with the following arguments:

mkdir -p testdir
./fbfs -s -d -f testdir

Open a second terminal and enter:

ls testdir

Paper

If you'd like, you can read the paper that I wrote describing the filesystem here.