is there a coordination ith SAMFS guys..theve been doing things in this area too
s- On 10/16/07, Rick Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Attached is a proposal for ADM (Automatic Data Migration). Please consider > this. > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rick Matthews email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sun Microsystems, Inc. phone:+1(651) 554-1518 > 1270 Eagan Industrial Road phone(internal): 54418 > Suite 160 fax: +1(651) 554-1540 > Eagan, MN 55121-1231 USA main: +1(651) 554-1500 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Project Overview: > > I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org to bring to > the community Solaris archive services for Sun ZFS file systems > namely, the "Automated Data Manager". The project would be known as ADM. > ADM, in conjunction with SMMS (a separate project proposal), will provide > an archive/storage solution along with a next generation media manager > for Sun's filesystems. These products are being designed and developed by > Sun Microsystems Data Archive Group. > > > Project Description: > > ADM is designed to use the Data Storage Management API (aka XDSM) as > defined in the CAE Specification XDSM as documented by the Open Group. > XDSM provides an Open Standard API to Data Migration Applications > (DMAPI) to manage file backup and recovery, automatic file migration, > and file replication. ADM will take advantage of these APIs as a > privileged application and extension to ZFS. > > 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 ADM 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 ADM 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. > > ADM is currently developed in Mercurial. 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 ADM and > allow for community contributions. > > Our design documentation can be found at: > > TBD > > Community Leaders: > > Jon Hendrickson > Susan Gleeson > Gregory Matthews > Richard Matthews > Rowan da Silva > > > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss > >
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