Lynn,
.... all good points - but you're missing the point that Rich, Alan,
Darren, and I have raised:
Honeycomb is not yet ready to have source be published, or do open
development.
Given that, I will reiterate for the 3rd time:
I think it's perfectly reasonable to discuss, and develop the Honeycomb
ideas either in the Appliances community, or the Storage community as
you mentioned. But it's not appropriate for an OpenSolaris project, yet.
-1 on the project proposal.
cheers,
steve
Lynn Rohrer wrote:
Folks,
I've been following this thread and I think we're missing an important part of
the Honeycomb project proposal... the desire to create a fixed content storage
capability for the OpenSolaris environment.
Note: It's cool that these folks initially delivered the functionality in an
appliance form using Solaris. But that's not the primary reason for creating
this new OpenSolaris project.
The purpose of this project proposal is to extend the storage capabilities of
the OpenSolaris environment to address a rapidly growing real-world problem --
write once, read many times data that requires additional metadata to describe,
store and retrieve the data.
Examples of this data and accompanying fixed content services include online
photo repositories, medical records storage, university research data
repositories, and online digital libraries.
The fixed content storage capability consists of both client and server code.
These folks would like to get the client interfaces out first for discussion
followed by a slug of server code that implements the desired interfaces.
There are communities looking to create standards for this type of data access
-- snia.org with XAM and the Java community.
There are also open source communities trying to build data management
applications on top of fixed content data services such as fedora.info and
dspace.org (both in the digital library content management space).
Having an OpenSolaris project for fixed content storage services helps bring
together the needs and conversations of these diverse communities... and will
result in the first (I believe) open source implementation of fixed content
storage software stack.
I suggest that we ask our OpenSolaris storage community to weigh in as well on
this project proposal since it's extending the storage capabilities of
OpenSolaris.
Lynn
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