From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pete Zaitcev Subject: Re: Hail usable as a "limited local AWS S3" and doc contribution? Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:04:00 -0600 Message-ID: <20091018090400.4bf5dcc3@redhat.com> References: <117304.55473.qm@web82303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <117304.55473.qm@web82303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: hail-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Zack Perry Cc: hail-devel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:27:00 -0700 (PDT), Zack Perry 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