From 042bc2636b6d30e55b6955a06ec495584b37d831 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodora-Mara Pislar <tmp1u19@soton.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 23:04:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add more to the documentation --- README.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index dde1b9f..0b8fa03 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ # Distributed File System -Distributed storage system using Java, networking and distributed systems \ No newline at end of file +This project creates a distributed storage system using Java, networking and distributed systems. +It will support multiple concurrent clients sending store, load, list, remove requests. As Dstores +may fail and be restarted, and new Dstores can join the datastore at runtime, rebalance operations are required to make sure each file is replicated R times and files are distributed evenly over the Dstores. + +The modules will communicate with each other via TCP connections and the datastores will listen on different ports. -- GitLab