This is my work for the Networking File System Goes Online project, conducted with Programming Club IITK over the summers of 2024.

The documentation is here

The project mainly covered:

• The basics of the Rust language
  • Ownership
  • Structs
  • Enums
  • Packages
  • Crates and Modules
  • Collections
• Asynchronous Programming
  • Threads
  • Async/Await
  • Usage in a Webserver
• Networking in a distributed system
  • Client-Server Architecture
  • Peer-to-Peer architecture
• Network Layers and protocols -
  • The OSI Model
  • The HTTP Protocol
  • Studied UDP and TCP in depth
• Made a Single-Threaded Web Server in Rust
• Operating Systems
  • Virtualization (Process Creation and management)
  • File Systems and Implementation
  • Organisation of VSFS - Superblock, Inodes, Data Blocks etc.
  • Flow of Read/Write operations
• Distributed Systems
  • Packet Loss and Reliability
  • Idempotence and Statelessness
  • Remote Process Call (RPC)
• Building a Networking File System in C