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

[Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:27:00 -0700 (PDT), Zack Perry <zack.perry@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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

I'm not sure if the assumptions are sound. The S3 is extremely
cheap. For example, my personal use of it comes to less than a
dollar a month.

> 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?

I don't know (see below).

> 1. Am I correct in assuming that I can run all three components on
> a single VPS with the resources outlined above?

Yes.

Two things you might want to keep in mind:

 - The tabled's implementation is not the canon, S3 is. If the S3fox
   fails with tabled but works with S3, it's likely a bug in tabled.
   I fixed up quite a bunch of them when I started running Boto.

   For example, parsing of arbitrary ACPs is absent and only canned
   forms are supported for now.

 - You're likely to run into bugs with stability, or something not
   starting... I just barely have it all working. Don't trust tabled
   with your backups just yet (I don't). Maybe in a few months.

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

I hope that tabled's setup.txt should be sufficient. CLD does not
really need any setup, just an empty directory. Ask away if you
have a specific question, no matter how detailed.

-- Pete