Re: [PROPOSAL] SSVM Generic Copy

2013-09-30 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
While SSVM is OK to understand the concept, it is more generically a transfer daemon which can run in a VM or not. For example, QuickCloud[1] takes the SSVM's daemon out and runs it on a standard Linux OS. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/clnVAQ On 9/30/13 2:37 PM, "SuichII, Christopher"

[PROPOSAL] SSVM Generic Copy

2013-09-30 Thread SuichII, Christopher
The storage subsystem currently uses a number of hypervisor APIs for transferring files between data stores (both primary and secondary). However, while implementing the storage subsystem API as a storage provider, we have discovered that there is a need for a generic copy method that can copy f