Attached is a initial proposal to get SMMS open sourced
Questions and comments are welcome Thanks John Pietenpol
Project Overview: I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org to bring to the community "Solaris Media management Service", a general purpose mounting service. The project will be known as SMMS. SMMS will provide a next generation media manager for Sun's filesystems. This project is being developed in conjunction with "Automated Data Manager" (ADM), which provides archive services for Sun ZFS file systems. This product is being designed and developed by Sun Microsystems Data Archive Group. Project Description: SMMS is Sun's implementation of the IEEE Media Management System (MMS). SMMS will provide true removable media resource sharing between applications (in this case, ADM). The tape library, drives and cartridge resources are no longer host-centric. Community Involvement: By open sourcing SMMS software, we will enhance OpenSolaris as a storage platform. Those that adopt OpenSolaris will benefit from an open storage platform, while providing valuable feedback during the development and deployment of these projects. We plan to develop our initial release of SMMS in the Open Source community, so we invite community feedback on our designs in progress. We intend to make periodic code drops to the project page for download by the community. SMMS is being developed under CVS source control. Our long term strategy will be to use Mercurial as a source control tool and make the repository part of the open source project. This will allow the community to comment on features and our code base as we work through the design and development phases of SMMS and allow for community contributions. Our design documentation can be found at: TBD: Community Leaders: Jon Hendrickson Paul Cheng Susan Gleeson Gregory Matthews Richard Matthews Rowan da Silva
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