NOOFS 0.9.0 review

NOOFS is a project which aims at creating an innovative file system, whose source code is distributed under the terms of the General

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 2599K Developer: NOOFS Team

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NOOFS is a project which aims at creating an innovative file system, whose source code is distributed under the terms of the General Public Licence GNU.

The project is developed within the framework of an end of studies project in EPITECH. The major goal of this project is to provide a file system storing its data in an SQL relational database.

NOOFS is an experimental project which gives solution to the problems and limitations of the current file system.

NOOFS project allows allows you to:

Sharing data through the network
Advanced security management
Quick search thanks to database engine
Extended information on the file system elements
Virtual Directories Management: folder with dynamic contents
Native data integrity management

At present, NOOFS is an experimental file system project. It has interesting functionalities. We encourage you to download the sources, possibly via CVS. We also are seeking for new contributors.

What's New in This Release:
This release adds a user-friendly tool using the QT library to edit Extended Attributes, adds major bugfixes and security fixes for the FUSE client and NOOFS daemon, implements error handling for the FUSE client (which now translates NOOFS errors to Unix error codes), updates the SQL files for MySQL and PostgreSQL and the network protocol, and updates the FUSE and kernel noofs clients to be compatible with the new version of the network protocol.