To maintain system independence, would not a better way be: create a SCSI interface to Amazon S3 This would allow Amazon S3 to be used with more than Bacula without any changes to Bacula. -- Dan Lang
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Amazon S3 has an API interface, so IMO the best way of dealing with it is to write a new "device" driver for the SD (it is relatively easy and well defined in the trunk). Then Bacula would use S3 muc
Bacula already requires OS support. It relies heavily upon SCSI interfaces. These interfaces are not designed specifically for Bacula. They are available to all comers. At present, Bacula knows about
Author: "David Boyes" <dboyes AT sinenomine DOT net>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:13:25 -0400
any We're working on something just like that. Should be available around Xmas. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applicat
I'm aware. You suggested a SCSI interface to S3. This sounds wrong on so my levels.. A filesystem driver for S3 would be usable, but neither will give you any independence. Quite the contrary. You'll
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Umm, my understanding is all systems that Bacula runs upon provide a SCSI interface. Look, please stop trying to poke holes in my specific suggestion and pay more attention to my general suggestion:
Author: "David Boyes" <dboyes AT sinenomine DOT net>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:09:20 -0400
Nope. No SCSI on my z10s. Multi-path FICON Express, dude. 8-) pay is Right on. It's bloody well time that Unix had a proper storage management interface, which is exactly what we're in the process o
If you have time available, I personally would prefer to see a new Bacula driver written using the S3 API, which as far as I can tell would be system independent. A SCSI driver is something that you
*zzzooooom* Straight over my head. Good (hoping that's not sarcasm that I'm missing). -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference:
Author: "David Boyes" <dboyes AT sinenomine DOT net>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:22:02 -0400
a 8-) 4 path, 200MB/sec (that's Mbytes/sec) *per path* to *each drive*, could expand to 8 path. No SCSI in sight. Mainframes. Gotta love 'em. 8-) implementing Nope. I'm tired of every application do
You realise that a solution that is bacula independent and a solution that teaches Bacula to interact directly with S3 are opposites, right? Um.. No. It's not like writing a SCSI interface to S3 at a
Bacula, as far as I know, is meant to work across different Unices. If you insist on putting S3 support into the operating system's kernel, you're effectively limiting your S3 support to the few oper
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It would, yes. It *is* more like a filesystem, but still not actually *like* a filesystem. E.g. you don't have the concept of directories, but you have a much more extensible concept of metadata. You
Author: "David Boyes" <dboyes AT sinenomine DOT net>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:17:57 -0400
systems Not at all what I'm doing. I'm doing a user-space API to a managed storage system. The applications are responsible for opening a channel to the managed storage system, asking to store an ob
Author: "Lukasz Szybalski" <szybalski AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:58:09 -0500
Hello, Along the sample lines. We can currently use file storage and devide the volume into 5gb files for amazon s3 usage, correct? Can I use: Maximum Block Size = 5368709120 on MediaType= File? Has
Yes. What interests me is that the solution used for Bacula is not system dependent. Obviously something that is Bacula independent requires no new code in Bacula, but it is rare that we find Bacula
I apologise. In that case I completely misunderstood you. I thought you were agreeing with the SCSI<->S3 thing. That would map very well indeed to S3's API. Sorry. Bad choice of words. Gotcha. What y