A Distributed Fault-Tolerant File System

BACS was developed on a system running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. However, BACS should run on any POSIX-compliant Linux distribution.

BACS requires a library for generating UUIDs. On Ubuntu systems, the library can be obtained by running the following:

$ sudo apt-get install uuid-dev

With the UUID library installed, BACS can be built using the following command:

$ make

Please note that the BACS project is an early stage prototype. There will be bugs. You have been warned. :)

The BACS server is launched by running the bacs_server executable. The executable accepts the following arguments:

$ ./bacs_server [-h host_ip] [-p port]

• host_ip - (OPTIONAL) IP address of another BACS server in the cluster (Since cluster functionality is not yet complete, this parameter currently does nothing.)
• port - (OPTIONAL) Port number the server should use; Defaults to 9930.

The BACS client is launched by running the bacs_client executable. The executable accepts the following arguments:

$ ./bacs_client <server_ip> <server_port>

• server_ip - IP address of any BACS server.
• server_port - Port of the BACS server at <server_ip>.

After the client has started, use the HELP command to see the available commands within the BACS shell:

>>HELP