Hi Jerry, On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Pan, Jerry Yun <p...@ornl.gov> wrote: > Chris, > Thanks for your comments. I will run these tests as soon as possible. > > My reason to experiment this solution is that there are current and future > data manipulation tools that needs to "see" the file system, rather than > dynamic streams from disseminators. The data are still curated via Fedora, > and other tools' access is read-only. > > If anyone can convince me this is a bad, or good approach, I'd appreciate it > and be happy to alter my direction.
I agree -- it's a necessary approach for a variety of use cases. There are plenty of good tools that we'll be with for a long time that work better with filesystems than http-accessible streams. Another interesting approach to satisfy such tools would be to give the repository a filesystem facade on the front end. Here's one attempt at this that was done a while back: FedoraFS: https://techknowhow.library.emory.edu/node/18 I think that was done vs Fedora 2.x, but I'd love to see someone do something like this for 3.x. One can imagine that if you had such a layer on top of your repository, you could expose it via SMB/CIFS, FTP, etc...and all kinds of tools could work with it in-place without having to know anything about Fedora. - Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list Fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
