Re: HAIL volunteer Rick Peralta

[Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:31:56 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> > Is there someone taking the point for the chunkd development?
> 
> That's me, for the moment.  :)

I have some short list todo for Chunk, after which I don't have
any particular plans:
 * Exit if CLD registration fails (maybe!).
 * Put ourhost into the CLD record, and the port.
 * Use base directory instead of Cell.
 * Switch to asprintf for CLD filenames, Geo.

So far we managed hacking on same codebase with relative ease.
Just make sure to post patches early.

> You should read the GoogleFS paper referenced on the chunkd wiki page: 
> http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs-sosp2003.pdf  It describes the purpose 
> and use of a chunk server, in the context of distributed cloud storage.

I think we're at a point where we have our own base of knowledge
and evolved an overall architecture to the point we don't have to
ape every little detail of Google architecture. In particular I'm
going to fight hard any talk of Chunk doing its own replication,
for now at least.

-- Pete