Chris, Thanks for your comments and your suggestion on FedoraFS. I am aware of FedoraFS and have had conversation with Rebecca on this use case for it. I agree that is a potential alternative solution here.
-Jerry > -----Original Message----- > From: cwil...@gmail.com [mailto:cwil...@gmail.com] On Behalf > Of Chris Wilper > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 3:30 PM > To: Pan, Jerry Yun > Cc: fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [fcrepo-user] FW: Low-level storage change questions > > 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
