NVFS

Netroda Virtual File System
Developer	Netroda Technologies
Type	Distributed Virtual File System as Software Interface
Reference Class	NVFS
Initial Release	2009
Platform	Extensible Services / Server

General

NVFS or Netroda Virtual File System is a abstract file system provider for local or remote data storages. It is used by ES/S Applications to store files on a disk or network storage, virtual because implementations do no depend on a specific media, as the NVFS drivers for the media carry the specific tasks that can be very different on vrious systems. The utilizing application need to only support the basic NVFS instruction set.

Outsourcing

Certain tasks, like backups or Soft-Raid/Soft-WORM can be offloaded to the NVFS service host, that manages and controls the data in/outlets.

Technical

Instruction set

• OPEN
• LOCK
• UNLOCK
• LIST
• READ
  • READPART
  • READALL
• WRITE
  • WRITEPART
  • WRITEALL
• MOVE
• RENAME
• ATTAIN
• FREE
• UNLINK
• DIR
• LS_RECURSE