Abstract:
In this work, we proposed file system aggregation to manage files on Windows. Existing distributed file systems usually run on Linux and are difficult to implement on Windows. Therefore, we apply the concept of distributed file systems, union file systems and Dokan to combine files from several data nodes (with name-conflict resolution) and make them available as a local drive. In addition, our system also supports offline mode with help from LRU based Cache. Our prototype shows that the system can combine files from several data nodes as a single drive on Windows with acceptable overhead.