Thanks. You say > I've had some discussions with Honeycomb developers
Who are those folks? On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 11:19 -0400, Richard Rodgers wrote: > Hi Cory: > > See remarks below... > > Thanks, > > Richard > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 14:55 +0000, Cory Snavely wrote: > > ...and if it seems odd to anyone following this thread that the > > developers of Nirvana SRB would suggest we achieve this integration by > > using the filesystem emulation provided by Nirvana SRB, which in turn > > uses the Honeycomb API, know that I definitely did point out that irony > > to them. > > > > However, according to these developers, the Nirvana and SDSC SRB APIs > > differ enough that that is the only way to do this without recoding the > > DSpace bitstream storage manager. > > > > Disappointing? Yeah. > > > > So am I understanding correctly that in future versions of DSpace, > > support for CAS systems and the like would be done in DSpace? I.e. we > > might expect there to be direct Honeycomb, EMC Celera, iRODS, etc > > support right within DSpace? We're trying to see the roadmap here. > > The roadmap certainly embraces selectable back-end storage options. > There is a prototype pluggable storage abstraction at > > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/PluggableStorage > > that I hope will eventually make it's way into a release, and it's > precise purpose is to avoid the need to recode BitStreamStorage manager > or any other core code. It currently supports legacy DSpace filesystem, > SRB, and Amazon S3, and I've had some discussions with Honeycomb > developers and I believe they are attempting to write a DSpace > implementation against that interface. > > We are just now seeing enough options to generalize & abstract this > layer, but I am sure we will continue these efforts. > > > c > > > > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 10:46 -0400, Blanco, Jose wrote: > > > We just had a phone conference with Sun and the developer for the > > > commercial version of SRB at Nirvana ( Tino ) and were told that the > > > commercial version of SRB they have developed is not the same as the > > > academic SRB. One thing they have developed is file system based SRB > > > which *should* work, and we are going to try it out. > > > > > > Thanks for this information! > > > > > > Jose > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: MacKenzie Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:37 AM > > > To: Blanco, Jose > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Academic SRB support > > > > > > Hi Jose, > > > > > > I haven't gotten the official story from SDSC, but I do know that their > > > attention has shifted to iRODS as the next generation storage > > > architecture for long-term data management. iRODS will be 100% open > > > source software (no more dual license) which will be easier for the > > > community to deal with. > > > > > > My understanding is that the commercial (Nirvana) and non-commercial > > > (plain SRB) are actually the same thing... they just have dual license > > > arrangement for the codebase. So the API that Sun develops *should* also > > > work for your plain vanilla SRB instance too. You can verify that with > > > the SDSC folks (or I can ask them). > > > > > > The DSpace work that we've done at MIT was for the old non-commercial > > > SRB, and we recently got the jargon client for iRODS, so those should be > > > tested with the 1.4.x and 1.5 releases. > > > > > > MacKenzie > > > > I wonder if any one has heard if the academic SRB ( non-commercial ) > > > > is going to be discontinued? We have been discussing using a > > > > Honeycomb server for bit storage, and they have informed us that the > > > > academic SRB is going to be discontinued, so they are not interested > > > > in developing an API for it. They are working on developing a > > > > commercial Nirvana SRB API. I'm assuming that the configurable SRB > > > > coming out in a future release of Dspace is the academic? > > > > > > > > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/PluggableStorage ? > > > > > > > > Thank you! > > > > Jose > > > > > > > > > -- > > > MacKenzie Smith > > > Associate Director for Technology > > > MIT Libraries > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > > Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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