From: Nikolaus R. <Nik...@ra...> - 2009-08-19 02:08:49
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Hello, I am pleased to announce that S3QL has reached a point where others can look at it. S3QL is a Linux file system that stores all its data on Amazon S3. It effectively allows you to use S3 as a harddisk with infinite capacity that can be accessed from any computer with internet access. S3QL is not a network file system though, it can only be mounted on one computer at a time. S3QL provides full-fledged POSIX file system semantics. The file contents are stored in individual S3 objects (for large files, the contents are split into several S3 objects with a configurable block size). The filesystem metadata (file names, locations, permissions, etc) is managed in a database and stored in one single additional S3 object. For more information please take a look at http://code.google.com/p/s3ql/. I would be grateful for any comments, questions and bug reports. Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C |
From: Mark P. <mb...@op...> - 2009-08-19 12:38:20
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On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 21:40 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I am pleased to announce that S3QL has reached a point where others can > look at it. > > S3QL is a Linux file system that stores all its data on Amazon S3. Is it really a Linux filesystem or really a FUSE filesystem? Can I run it on other OSes which support FUSE? -M |
From: Nikolaus R. <Nik...@ra...> - 2009-08-19 16:08:49
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Mark Phalan <mb...@op...> writes: > On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 21:40 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am pleased to announce that S3QL has reached a point where others can >> look at it. >> >> S3QL is a Linux file system that stores all its data on Amazon S3. > > Is it really a Linux filesystem or really a FUSE filesystem? Can I run > it on other OSes which support FUSE? It should work on all FUSE supported Oses, but I have tried it only on Linux. The umount.s3ql program does some probably linux-specific tricks so that it can block until all data has been written to S3, but you can use fusermount -u instead (it will not block, of course). Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C |
From: Kevin <kev...@ya...> - 2009-09-04 19:34:11
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Would you elaborate a little more how reliable this is? What stage is it in? Alpha? Beta? Release? I am interested in using it, but want something reasonably reliable. Thanks Kevin http://www.netcdp.com ----- Original Message ---- From: Nikolaus Rath <Nik...@ra...> To: fus...@li... Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:02:46 AM Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] ANNOUNCE: S3QL, a file system that stores all its data on Amazon S3 Mark Phalan <mb...@op...> writes: > On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 21:40 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am pleased to announce that S3QL has reached a point where others can >> look at it. >> >> S3QL is a Linux file system that stores all its data on Amazon S3. > > Is it really a Linux filesystem or really a FUSE filesystem? Can I run > it on other OSes which support FUSE? It should work on all FUSE supported Oses, but I have tried it only on Linux. The umount.s3ql program does some probably linux-specific tricks so that it can block until all data has been written to S3, but you can use fusermount -u instead (it will not block, of course). Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ fuse-devel mailing list fus...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fuse-devel |
From: Mark P. <mb...@op...> - 2009-08-20 09:36:50
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On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 12:02 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Mark Phalan <mb...@op...> writes: > > On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 21:40 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am pleased to announce that S3QL has reached a point where others can > >> look at it. > >> > >> S3QL is a Linux file system that stores all its data on Amazon S3. > > > > Is it really a Linux filesystem or really a FUSE filesystem? Can I run > > it on other OSes which support FUSE? > > It should work on all FUSE supported Oses, but I have tried it only on > Linux. > > The umount.s3ql program does some probably linux-specific tricks so that > it can block until all data has been written to S3, but you can use > fusermount -u instead (it will not block, of course). Great. Thanks, -M |
From: Sven U. <utc...@in...> - 2009-08-20 11:24:26
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Hello Mark, > > >> S3QL is a Linux file system that stores all its data on Amazon > > >> S3. > > > > > > Is it really a Linux filesystem or really a FUSE filesystem? Can > > > I run it on other OSes which support FUSE? Lest I missed something: what other OSes with FUSE support are there? (I now of some tentative Solaris support, but that's it). Sven -- __ _ _ __ __ __ / _` || ' \ \ \ / \__, ||_|_|_|/_\_\ http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~utcke/Private/ |___/ Key fingerprint = 6F F8 55 1C F9 E3 A8 F7 09 DF F7 2C 25 0C 54 53 |
From: Mark P. <mb...@op...> - 2009-08-20 11:47:32
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On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 13:24 +0200, Sven Utcke wrote: > Hello Mark, > > > > >> S3QL is a Linux file system that stores all its data on Amazon > > > >> S3. > > > > > > > > Is it really a Linux filesystem or really a FUSE filesystem? Can > > > > I run it on other OSes which support FUSE? > > Lest I missed something: what other OSes with FUSE support are there? > (I now of some tentative Solaris support, but that's it). FreeBSD http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/ MacOSX http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ Windows http://fuse4win.4host.ru/ NetBSD http://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/ OpenSolaris http://opensolaris.org/os/project/fuse/ (I could be missing others...) Certainly they are all differ in levels of maturity. -M |
From: Nikolaus R. <Nik...@ra...> - 2009-09-14 14:08:49
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Kevin <kev...@ya...> writes: > Would you elaborate a little more how reliable this is? What stage is > it in? Alpha? Beta? Release? >From http://code.google.com/p/s3ql/: ,---- | Development Status | | S3QL is in alpha stage. This means that most of the time you can create, store and retrieve small amounts of data (~100 MB) without problems. You can probably also work with hundreds of gigabytes, but testing is only done with small datasets so you may run into unexpected problems. Unrelated to how much you store, all your data may become inaccessible overnight because backwards-incompatible changes to the code are made without warning. | | Please report any problems or bugs that you may encounter on the Issue Tracker. | | If you need a reliable online storage solution right now, I recommend | taking a look at the Related Projects. `---- HTH -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C |