ladycarbonfiber / Ephie

In memory file system learning project

Ephie -- An in memeory file system

In memory file system mostly as a playground for async rust

Features

(When possible commands mirror gnu utils for discoverability)

• Terminal Client

  • Interactive

  • Multi-user Concurrent Support

  • Auto clear

  • Help

• List with ls

  • Working Directory

  • absolute path

  • relative path

  • parent path

• Change working directory with cd

  • absolute path

  • parent path

  • relative path

• Create a new directory with mkdir

  • absolute path

  • parent path

  • relative path

  • auto mkdir

• Remove directory or "file" with rm

  • absolute path

  • parent path

  • relative path

• Create a new file with touch

• Write to file with write

• Read out file with read

• Search working directory with find

• cp

  • Files

  • Directories

• mv

  • Files

  • Directories

• AuthZ

  • Assign users and groups to directories/files

  • create new

    • users

    • groups

  • assign/remove users to groups

  • switch users

  • Restrict access based on user/group membership

• CI

  • Build on PR
  • Test on PR

Current Scope Limitiations

• Relative parent directory (ie ../.. or foo/../bar)

• Client file writes are overwrite

• Only support unix; windows paths are awful

Requirements

Build

• rust (curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh) to install the tool chain comes with cargo
• cargo

Tests

cargo test in relevant folders

Build

bash build.sh

Release

bash release.sh

Run

bash run-server.sh

bash run-client.sh