Ah, so I think you've got it backwards.  I'm looking for a custom
java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider over the jclouds BlobStore api --
not a jclouds BlobStore over the NIO2 FileSystem.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/io/fsp/filesystemprovider.html

Kevin


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Andrew Gaul <g...@apache.org> wrote:
> We document the filesystem blobstore here:
>
> http://jclouds.incubator.apache.org/documentation/quickstart/filesystem/
> http://jclouds.incubator.apache.org/documentation/userguide/filesystem-provider/
>
> The filesystem blobstore should operate exactly like regular blobstores.
> jclouds also offers a transient blobstore which does not persist to
> disk.  I find both useful for testing.
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:05:00AM -0700, Kevin Krouse wrote:
>> I haven't tried the JDK6-based FileSystemProvider.  I didn't know it
>> was available, actually.  Is there documentation?
>>
>> Sure, I can take a look to see what implementing a JDK7 FileProvider
>> would entail if others are also interested.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Andrew Gaul <g...@apache.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:01:47PM -0700, Kevin Krouse wrote:
>> >> I'm just getting familiar with the jclouds library and am quite
>> >> pleased so far.  Thanks for creating the library.
>> >>
>> >> Is there a JDK7 NIO.2 FileSystemProvider adapter over the jcloud blob
>> >> store API?  I'm not very familiar with the issues around blob storage
>> >> so I'm not sure it even makes sense to provide an implementation of
>> >> the FileSystemProvider.
>> >>
>> >> FWIW, I've only found one FileSystemProvider API over S3 so far:
>> >> https://github.com/martint/s3fs
>> >
>> > What do you find lacking in the JDK6-based FileSystemProvider?  I have
>> > noticed that it scales poorly with large directories which NIO.2 would
>> > help address.  jclouds does not offer support for this today, in part
>> > because we maintain compatibility with JDK6.  However, we could host a
>> > JDK7-enhanced provider in labs if the community found this useful.
>> > Would you like to take up this task?
>
> --
> Andrew Gaul
> http://gaul.org/

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