Transparent Remote File Access through a Shared Library Client

Brice Goglin; Loïc Prylli

Transparent Remote File Access through a Shared Library Client

Brice Goglin ^{1, 2} Loïc Prylli ^{2, 1}

1 RESO - Protocols and softwares for very high-performance network

Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, ENS Lyon - École normale supérieure - Lyon, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5668

2 LIP - Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme

Abstract : This paper presents the implementation of the ORFA client. ORFA aims at providing an efficient access to remote file systems through high-speed local networks such as Myrinet. The ORFA client is a lightweight shared library that may be pre-loaded to override standard file access routines to allow remote file access for any legacy application. In ORFA, virtual file descriptors have been designed to support POSIX behavior such as file sharing semantics so that remote files may be accessed and manipulated as local files. Local file access routines may still be used without any incompatibility with other libraries that modify their standard behavior. Finally, a network abstraction layer has been implemented in ORFA to efficiently use asynchronous interfaces such as GM without suffering from memory registration requirements.

Keywords : DYNAMIC LINKING TRANSPARENCY MEMORY REGISTRATION MYRINET LINUX REMOTE FILE ACCESS SHARED LIBRARY

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Computer Science [cs] / Other [cs.OH]

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