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2008/6/11 Jeff Cheeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > +1 > > Glenn, I'll be your project facilitator and help you through the > process. We'll keep the voting and comment period open until Tuesday > June 17. We also will need one more vote from a core contributor. > > Thanks for the submission. This looks very cool. > > --jc > > --- > Jeff Cheeney | OpenSolaris Storage Community | > http://opensolaris.org/os/storage | http://blogs.sun.com/icedawn > > > On 06/10/08 19:10, Glenn Scott wrote: > > Folks, > > We are submitting our project for consideration in the OpenSolaris > > Storage Community project. > > > > Synopsis > > > > Project Celeste (Celeste) is a file store that operates much like > > contemporary object stores but presents files with read/write/delete > > semantics. File stored in Celeste have the same kind of gains in > > availability that an object store provides and yet they can be > > arbitrarily modified and deleted. > > > > Community Groups > > > > OpenSolaris Storage > > > > We want to invite and encourage several kinds of community > > participation. One > > form of participation is further research into the problems that a > > storage system like > > Celeste can solve and into the problems that Celeste exposes in the > > realm of P2P > > storage, untrusted distributed systems, and so forth. Another way to > > participate is > > to extend Celeste in various directions, and to implement techniques > > (new > > or old) to improve the system. > > > > > > Participants and Proposed Project Leader > > Glenn Scott (helvetix) -- Sun Labs Principal Investigator > > Glenn Skinner (glenn) > > > > Description > > > > Celeste is a relatively mature research project out of Sun > > Microsystems Laboratories dealing with the problems of building a > > system to provide high-availability, dynamic file storage using a wide > > variety of different computers and storage devices. The system is a > > dynamic, masterless distributed system wherein each computer > > contributes some amount of local storage to the system and > > participates in the Celeste P2P protocols, which assume that no node > > is trusted and provide tolerance for configurable levels of node > > failure and malicious behavior. The system provides for file create, > > read, write, set-length, and delete semantics with availability > > paramount. > > > > Related Work > > > > * Honeycomb: What Honeycomb does for static content, Celeste does for > > dynamic content. > > > > * The Oceanstore Project: Global Scale Persistent Data -- UC Berkeley > > Celeste took inspiration from Berkeley's work on global data > > storage. Celeste's contributions to and differences from this work > > consist primarily in object deletion and in the application of > > Query/Update protocols to maintain object coherency. > > > > Additional Information > > > > Celeste is written entirely as a Java application. > > > > Sun Labs is continuing to work on Celeste by extending it beyond a > > mutable object store, to a distributed object store wherein the > > individual objects have programmatic behaviour. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- Dominic Kay +44 780 124 6099
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