You are correct that our initial source code drops into opensolaris.org, SNIA, and java.net contain a limited piece of the overall ST5800 software stack. Our view in releasing the standalone "emulator" code first is simply that it encapsulates all of the user-facing pieces, which are the pieces that will be most immediately useful to the existing 5800 community.
There is definitely a plan of record to release the entire ST5800 software stack, except for some pieces (such as the HADB database) that are still encumbered. Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date by when the work of making that public will be completed. On the one hand the release of the full software stack will be useful to you as any source code is useful -- you will be able to see how the job is getting done. On the other hand, as Mark Carlson pointed out, the existing ST5800 is tied pretty tightly to the existing ST5800 hardware -- it is an integrated hardware/software appliance. There are not plans at this point to make the existing code run in an arbitrary collection of hardware units. Of course, once the full set of code is released to OpenSolaris.org, you would be welcome to take that code and do that work yourself (of porting it to run in alternate appliance models)! Peter Domas Mituzas wrote: > Well, honeycomb real server with replicas and such, instead of just emulator, > would be far more interesting. Is that going to be released, or is that > staying proprietary? What about having 20 thumpers for this? How would large > scale media storage work in this case? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss > _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
