seFS - Storage Efficient File System based on Python-fuse bindings

seFS is a Python-FUSE based storage efficient file system that abstracts SQLite Database as a file system and provides storage efficiency with Data deduplication and compression. seFS was developed on Ubuntu 11.04

Features

Storage efficiency:

• Data de-duplication
• Compression

Usage

Setup
- Create a directory
- run myfuse.py to mount the directory created
   $./myfuse.py -f ./dirpath

Run
- Open another terminal and issue seFS file system commands
   $touch abc
   $ll
   $cat >> abc

Teardown
- You will need to unmount the directory using fuermount utility
   $fusermount -u ./dirpath

Dependencies

• Ubuntu 11.04
• SQLite Database
• python-Fuse bindings
• Python 2.6

Limitation

This is a prototype file system implementation and can be furthered scaled.

Contact

• Chetan Giridhar [email protected]

License

GNU General Public License v3.0