A distributed file system implementation with a beautiful TUI client interface.

• Distributed Storage: Files are split into chunks and distributed across multiple DataNodes
• Fault Tolerance: Files can be stored across different machines
• Beautiful TUI: Modern terminal user interface built with Rich
• Network Support: Works across multiple machines on the same network
• File Operations: Upload, download, list, and delete files

1. Install Python 3.x
2. Install dependencies:

pip install rich

For detailed network setup instructions, see NETWORK_SETUP.md

1. Start Namespace Server:

python namespace.py 0.0.0.0 9000

2. Start DataNodes (on different machines or same machine):

python datanode.py node1 8001 2048 <namespace_ip> 9000 <this_machine_ip>

3. Start Client TUI:

python client.py <namespace_ip> 9000

• Namespace Server: Central metadata coordinator (like NameNode in HDFS)
• DataNodes: Storage servers that hold actual file chunks
• Client: TUI interface for file operations

• namespace.py - Namespace server (metadata coordinator)
• datanode.py - DataNode server (storage)
• client.py - Client TUI application
• database.py - SQLite database schema
• utils.py - Utility functions

• NETWORK_SETUP.md - Detailed network setup guide