geom s3 class (gs3?)

[Eric Anderson]

On 11/10/06 17:09, Igor Sviridov wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I guess most people here heard about Amazon S3 storage service:
> http://aws.amazon.com/s3
> 
> I would love to have a Geom class which would use S3 as a back-end.
> While S3 api is good one for Web applications, using filesystem
> is often simpler and sometimes the only way.
> 
> Obviously mapping filesystem calls to S3 API may be too slow for many 
> applications but this can be mitigated by adding local write cache/queue 
> on another geom provider (disk), or modifying gmirror to return write
> calls once they're committed to local mirror component (and using it as
> queue for remote mirror component stored on S3).
> 
> There is in fact Linux prototype implementation of similar idea, though
> on slightly different level - "s3fs" filesystem via FUSE:
> 
> http://dev.extensibleforge.net/wiki/s3/fuse
> 
> and closed-source open-spec JungleDisk:
> http://www.jungledisk.com/


Amazon's S3 looks more like a filesystem than a GEOM-like block device. 
  It could be implemented as a very rudimentary file system I suppose.


Eric


-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't.
------------------------------------------------------------------------