Deduplicating File System

Description

The aim of this project is to implement a simple filesystem using fusepy, a Python module that provides a simple interface to FUSE. Furthurmore, use block-level data deduplication to improve storage utilization.

Requirements

• Python 2.x (2.6 or later)
• fusepy

Instructions

Method 1

• Make the script executable

$ chmod +x dfs.py

• Run the script

$ ./dfs.py <root directory> <mount directory>

Method 2

• Run script by calling the python interpreter

$ python dfs.py <root directory> <mount directory>