Soren Hansen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:52:13AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: >> Bacula already requires OS support. It relies heavily upon SCSI >> interfaces. These interfaces are not designed specifically for >> Bacula. They are available to all comers. > > I'm aware. > > You suggested a SCSI interface to S3. This sounds wrong on so my > levels.. A filesystem driver for S3 would be usable, but neither will > give you any independence. Quite the contrary. You'll become completely > dependent on systems that provide this interface. This might not be a > problem, but you started out saying that this was a good way of > achieving independence.
Umm, my understanding is all systems that Bacula runs upon provide a SCSI interface. Look, please stop trying to poke holes in my specific suggestion and pay more attention to my general suggestion: namely, pick a solution that is Bacula independent. >> Someone else mentioned: fuse plugin. this looks promising: >> http://code.google.com/p/s3fs-fuse/ it's obviously linux specific, but >> should be pretty trivial to set up with bacula > > Quite so. That doesn't help people on systems that don't support FUSE, > though. I'm not one of them, but I think this would be useful in Bacula > itself. > >> Kern also has an idea. See his recent post. > > His idea is a repeat of one of my suggestions, namely teaching Bacula to > interact directly with S3. Great. :) But my understanding is it involves write a driver which confirms to the API. Much like writing a SCSI interface to S3. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
