Hail usable as a "limited local AWS S3" and doc contribution?

[Zack Perry <zack.perry@sbcglobal.net>]

Hi,

While trying to find a less expensive way to validate my application targeting AWS S3, I stumbled across Project Hail. 

After reading the wiki, I downloaded cld, chunkd, and tabled tar balls, built them on my Ubuntu 9.04 based VPS successfully. Both cld and chunkd passed the built-in tests too (make check). Not having cld up, I haven't tested tabled yet.

My intention is to set up all 3 components on my Xen based VPS (Ubuntu 9.04, 2.6.24-19-xen kernel, 512Mb RAM, 1G swap/16G disk space, 1 vcpu) as a "local AWS S3".

Looking at the bundled docs, it seems to me that only chunkd and tabled has a setup.txt in their respective doc file. For cld, I don't see a corresponding file, although I suppose I can consult scripts/c codes in the test subdirectory to get some ideas.

Before diving in further, two questions:

0. Can either Jeff or Pete tell me whether the project is already usable for what I would like to do with it? i.e. a setup that one can use something like S3fox Organizer to interact with?  
1. Am I correct in assuming that I can run all three components on a single VPS with the resources outlined above?

If yes to both, can you outline the steps that you would setup the three components for such a purpose?  

I am happy to do a full setup and share my experience and details here for others' future reference.  

Thanks,

--Zack