Title: VegaFS: file sharing crossing multiple domains

Authors: Wei Li, Jianmin Liang, Zhiwei Xu

Addresses: Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. ' Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. ' Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Abstract: We propose a file system prototype to solve the crossing domain problem, which is a great challenge for full sharing of file resources in grid environments. In our prototype, we adopted the public key in native file systems to detach file systems from administrative domains entirely. Our methods bring several benefits to the design of grid file systems such as cross-domain file access abilities, scalabilities, fine-grained dynamic access control mechanisms and better securities.

Keywords: VegaFS; grid; file system; file sharing; crossing domains; multiple administrative domains; cluster computing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHPCN.2004.008902

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2004 Vol.2 No.2/3/4, pp.178 - 185

Published online: 02 Feb 2006 *

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