Small Grant: Sia NFS Gateway (sia-nfs)

[rrauch]

September 2024 Progress Report

What progress was made on your grant this month?

• Milestone 2 was released, the first generally usable and fully featured release.
• Version 0.3.0 was released a few days later, mainly improving compatibility with Windows and macOS
• The content cache (Cachalot) was fully implemented and integrated.
• More I/O scheduler refinements that finally led to a satisfying all-round strategy
• Details about the two releases can be found in the release announcements above

This grant was completed within the agreed-upon time frame, and everything outlined in the initial proposal has been successfully implemented.

Links to repos worked on this month:

• GitHub - rrauch/sia_nfs: Sia NFS Gateway · GitHub
• GitHub - rrauch/renterd_client: A native Rust client library for Sia's renterd API · GitHub
• GitHub - huggingface/nfsserve: A Rust NFS Server implementation · GitHub

What will you be working on this month?

As this grant has reached completion, my focus is shifting to my next project—if granted:

Small Grant: Sia Virtual Block Device (sia_vbd)

Project Name: Sia Virtual Block Device (sia_vbd) Name of the organization or individual submitting the proposal: Roland Rauch Describe your project: sia_vbd implements virtual block devices on top of renterd. Essentially, it provides users with virtual disks that are location-independent, can grow to almost any size, allow snapshots, branching, are deduplicated and compressed, and are fully backed by Sia objects. How It Works sia_vbd organizes data into Blocks, which are fixed-size units of d…