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Integrating Popular Block Storage into Linux

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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.

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Prerequisites

  • (Legitimate) access to Minecraft Java Edition
  • A Linux host with:
    • Docker
    • A recent Go toolchain
    • openjdk-11-jre and openjdk-11-jdk
    • Apache Maven
    • e2fsprogs in PATH (e.g. mkfs.ext4)
    • Probably some other things we didn't notice we had. Sorry!

How-to

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.

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