DistOS-2011W Wuala

Introduction

Many if not most computers are connected to each other via the internet. This interconnectivity provides an age or instant communication and information sharing. This same connectivity should protect users form file loss as the user's files should live within the internet. If the files live in the internet they should be available from any computer a user deign's to sit at. There are now abundant online services that help provide to online backup and merging. However these system's all provide a central authority that allows access and provides the storage itself. I prefer the concept of a service ran between peers where I give up space on my local system and in turn I receive safe distributed and redundant online storage. In my search I found a system like this Wuala. In this paper I explore the technology behind Wuala and it's relative viability.

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Previous Work

In the area of online/distributed storage there are a number of existing works. The can be seperated into two main divisions; distributed file systems and service oriented systems.

Distributed file systems include academic offerings such as OpenAFS (Andrew File System), OceanStore, Ceph and the commercially driven GFS( Google File System ) and it's open source implementation HFS(Hadoop File System).

Evaluated Systems/Programs

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Experiences/Comparison (multiple sections)

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Discussion

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Conclusion

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