On Monday 25 August 2008 17:54:12 Soren Hansen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:13:25AM -0400, David Boyes wrote: > >> 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. > > > > We're working on something just like that. Should be available around > > Xmas. > > Who? Where? How can I help out?
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 have to install in your OS, and as such is highly OS dependent, so would be available only on systems that have such a "module" for them. In addition, Bacula's SCSI interface will not co-exist well with S3 since when Bacula is writing to a tape (using the open/read/write/ioctl/close SCSI interface), it expects the device to behave like a tape. S3 is more like a filesystem. If one did succeed in such an endeavor, the advantage would be that there should be no changes to Bacula. If I am not mistaken, S3 does already have an interface that works through normal file open/read/write/lseek/close which would be compatible with Bacula's disk (or File) driver. It *should* work, but it might be much less satisfactory (less well integrated with S3) than a real S3 driver. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
