Hey guys,
First, this project looks incredible! Thanks to all the contributors :)
Second, after a brief encounter with the FAQ, I don't think s3ql does what
I want, but it's *so close *that I want to lay out my goals—I can't be the
first seeker on this path...
My goal: the holy grail of personal storage.
- local file system is effectively infinite (backed by s3, etc)
- has all the nice things like compression, client-side encryption,
snapshotting, multiple remotes/subtrees
- reading a file stored on a remote fs downloads that file to the local
filesystem *at the same path*
- another way to say this is that the local filesystem acts a bit
like an LRU cache for remote paths
s3ql looks perfect *except* for the last point. The FAQ says that the
closest it comes to this is using rsync to copy local data into an s3ql
mount, but that won't let you see remote files next to local ones, let
alone make them local transparently.
Given that it's addressed in the FAQ, I assume it's been discussed, so why
is this the case? This is not idle curiosity talking—I've been working on a
rough draft of the above (python + fuse), but I don't want to re-implement
all the beautiful stuff in s3ql if I don't have to.
Cheers,
Cameron
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