Directory Service Provided by DSCloud Platform

TL;DR

The paper presents the DSCloud Platform's global directory service, enabling user-created directories, access control, and integration with local file systems, primarily aimed at educational use cases.

Contribution

It introduces a novel user-managed global directory service with features like authorization and mounting, tailored for educational environments.

Findings

Supports large-scale dispersed information management

Provides user-controlled directory creation and maintenance

Facilitates integration with local file systems

Abstract

When there are huge volumes of information dispersing in the various machines, global directory services are required for the users. DSCloud Platform provides the global directory service, in which the directories are created and maintained by the users themselves. In this paper, we describe the DSCloud Platform directory service's functions, authorization, mounting users' local file systems, and usage scenery for education.