Slides here
Repository for cceckman and slongfield's 2020 SIGBOVIK submission: Integrating Popular Block Storage into Linux.
The code / instructions in this repository allow you to use Minecraft chests as Linux block storage devices.
- (Legitimate) access to Minecraft Java Edition
- A Linux host with:
- Docker
- A recent Go toolchain
- openjdk-11-jre and openjdk-11-jdk
- Apache Maven
e2fsprogsinPATH(e.g.mkfs.ext4)- Probably some other things we didn't notice we had. Sorry!
Clone this repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/cceckman/popular-block-storage.git
Build everything:
$ ./do all
To run the Minecraft server and plugins:
$ ./run_mc.sh
The Minecraft server will run on port 4601; you can connect your Minecraft client to it right away!
The block storage server will run on port 4602.
With that running, connect the server to your filesystem:
$ ./run_blocks.sh my-directory
That will create a blocks file in a temporary directory, put an ext4 filesystem on it, and mount it at my-directory.