blobnet

A low-latency file server that responds to requests for chunks of file data.

This acts as a non-volatile, over-the-network content cache. Internal users can add binary blobs to the cache, and the data is indexed by its SHA-256 hash. Any blob can be retrieved by its hash and range of bytes to read.

Data stored in this server is locally cached, backed by NFS, and durable.

Usage

Run cargo install blobnet and see the options in the CLI. The server supports only two types of requests (GET / PUT), and an example client in Rust is located in the blobnet library crate.