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> On 22 Feb 2015, at 23:55, Dean Hildebrand <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by opposite of the post?  
> 
I do not want to host swift on GPFS, I would like to page files/objects out 
from GPFS to Swift
> 
> Regarding erasure coding, I'm confident in saying that not all erasure coding 
> mechanisms were created equal, and I'm sure a deep dive on GPFS Native RAID 
> could be provided for you that would clearly show how it is vastly superior 
> in every way to the upcoming (1 year?) version of Swift erasure coding…
> 
I understand.
There is a lot going on here, see 
http://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/Luse_Kevin_SNIATutorialSwift_Object_Storage2014_final.pdf
 for some background.

> 
> On your other question regarding paging files out to an object store, that is 
> actually the exact feature provided by the upcoming MCStore feature that was 
> described at IBM Insight and IBM Enterprise in 2014.  Unfortunately there 
> isn't a lot of external info about these feature yet….
> 

Would like to know more about this, as this is exactly what I am talking about 
from the description. Is this DMAPI based ?
How do I get more information on this ?

> 
> Dean Hildebrand
> IBM Almaden Research Center
> 
> 
> <graycol.gif>Ben Roeder ---02/02/2015 08:19:47 AM---Hi, I would like to see 
> the exact opposite of this post, esp with erasure coding coming to swift, in
> 
> From: Ben Roeder <[email protected]>
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> Date: 02/02/2015 08:19 AM
> Subject:      Re: [gpfsug-discuss] First IBM developer blog post
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> 
> Hi,
> I would like to see the exact opposite of this post, esp with erasure coding 
> coming to swift, instead of the 3 copies redundancy.
> 
> I would like to see the ability to page files out to the object store, like 
> you can to LTFS.
> 
> as per http://www.zurich.ibm.com/sto/systems/bigdata.html 
> <http://www.zurich.ibm.com/sto/systems/bigdata.html> but Openstack Swift 
> instead of LTFS.
> 
> Ben Roeder
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> > On 2 Feb 2015, at 16:02, Jez Tucker (Chair) <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all
> > 
> >  Our first IBM developer's blog post is up.
> > 
> > http://www.gpfsug.org/gpfs-with-object/ 
> > <http://www.gpfsug.org/gpfs-with-object/>
> > 
> > Please take 10 secs to give some feedback via the mailing list.
> > Are we hitting the right level, spot, content etc.?
> > 
> > What would you like to see?
> > 
> > Very best,
> > 
> > Jez
> > 
> > 
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