On 16.4.2013, at 19.30, l...@airstreamcomm.net wrote:

> On 4/15/13 11:16 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On 15.4.2013, at 18.55, l...@airstreamcomm.net wrote:
>> 
>>> Does the new obox plugin support any of the open source object storage 
>>> systems such as openstack, glusterfs, or ceph?  From your store site it 
>>> does not appear so.
>> Glusterfs isn't really object storage (unless they've changed since I last 
>> looked at them), and it already more or less works with Dovecot using the 
>> existing mailbox formats. Except last I heard it still caused index file 
>> corruption.
>> 
>> Openstack Swift support is coming. There's a half-working version of it 
>> already, would need just a day or two to finish it up.
>> 
>> I haven't looked at Ceph closely yet, but it would be nice to support it as 
>> well.
>> 
>> obox can also be used with a regular POSIX filesystem, although it loses the 
>> prefetching capabilities then. So it could be used with e.g. Glusterfs or 
>> NFS to provide an efficient local cache. I've also thought about trying out 
>> if prefetching could be done by creating new "diskio" processes with a ton 
>> of threads doing the actual disk I/O.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Timo, Riak CS is S3 compatible.  Just curious if you have tested with Riak CS 
> (especially the multi-data center implementation).

I've only tested it against Amazon S3. But if it's fully API compatible, I 
don't see why it wouldn't work.. 

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