myNFS

Project Overview

This project implements a Network File System (NFS) client and server, allowing remote access to a shared filesystem over a network. It involves building both the NFS server and NFS client, which communicate using the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol. This setup allows the client to invoke procedures on the server without needing to know the underlying details of how those procedures are executed, ensuring seamless interaction between systems.

Key Features

RPC Communication: The NFS client and server communicate through RPC, using functions such as opendir, readdir, mkdir etc.
File Operations: The NFS client can perform various file operations (e.g., listing directories, creating files, and directories) remotely on the NFS server.
Error Handling: The project includes basic error handling for timeouts, connection errors, and memory allocation issues.
Memory Management: Tools such as Valgrind and AddressSanitizer are used to detect and manage memory leaks, buffer overflows, and segmentation faults.

Technical Details

Dependencies

LibTIRPC: The project uses libtirpc to implement the transport-independent RPC.
- To install: sudo apt-get install libtirpc-dev
GCC: The project is compiled using the GCC compiler with -ltirpc linked.
GDB & Valgrind: For debugging and memory error detection.

Compilation

To compile the NFS client:

gcc -g -o nfs_client nfs_client.c -ltirpc

To compile the NFS server:

gcc -g -o nfs_server nfs_server.c -ltirpc

Or:

make -f Makefile.nfs

Running the Project

Start the NFS server:

./nfs_server

Run the NFS client to connect to the server:

./nfs_client