DistOS 2015W Session 6

Midterm

The midterm from last year is now available.

Group 1

Team: Kirill, Jamie, Alexis, Veena, Khaled, Hassan

	FARSITE	OceanStore
Fault Tolerance	Used Byzantine Fault Tolerance Algorithm - Did not manage well	Used Byzantine Fault Tolerance Algorithm - Did not manage well
Cryptography	Trusted Certificates	A strong cryptographic algorithm on read-only operations
Implementation	Did not mention what programming they used, but it was based on Windows. They did not implement the file system	Implemented in JAVA
Scalability	Scalable to a University or large corporations, maximum 105	Worldwide scalability, maximum 1010
File Usage	Was designed for general purpose files	Was designed for small file sizes
Scope	All clients sharing the available resources	Transient centralized service
Object Model	Didn't use the object model	Used the object model

Group 2

Team Members: Apoorv, Ambalica, Ashley, Eric, Mert, Shivjot

Group 3

DANY, MOE, DEEP, SAMEER, TROY

FARSITE

Security • Cascading certificates system through directory hierarchy • Keys • Three types of certificates • CFS required to authorized certificate • Because directory groups only modify their shared state via a Byzantine-fault-tolerant protocol, we trust the group not to make

       an incorrect update to directory metadata. This metadata includes an access control list (ACL) of public keys of all users
       who are authorized writers to that directory and to files in it

• Both file content and user-sensitive metadata (meaning file and directory names) are encrypted for privacy.

System Architecture • Client Monitor, directory group, file host • When space runs out in directory group, delegate’s ownership to sub tree to other delegate group.

OCEANSTORE

Security • GUID and ACLs used for write, encryption used for reads. • To prevent unauthorized reads, it encrypts

       all data in the system that is not completely public and distributes the encryption key to those users with read permission