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From: Zack Perry <zack.perry@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Hail usable as a "limited local AWS S3" and doc contribution?
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:11:32 -0700 (PDT)
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To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, hail-devel@vger.kernel.org

Hi Pete and jeff,

Thanks for you two's replies.

>=20
> > While trying to find a less expensive way to validate my applicatio=
n
> > targeting AWS S3, I stumbled across Project Hail.=20
>=20
> 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.

=46or my own personal use, indeed that's the case.  However, S3's carri=
es quite significant charges for HTTP PUT requests.  That's an area whe=
re I am trying to test thoroughly before testing it live against the AW=
S S3 itself.


[...]
>=20
> > 1. Am I correct in assuming that I can run all three components on
> > a single VPS with the resources outlined above?
>=20
> Yes.
>=20
> Two things you might want to keep in mind:
>=20
>  - The tabled's implementation is not the canon, S3 is. If the S3fox
> =A0=A0=A0fails with tabled but works with S3, it's likely a bug in ta=
bled.
> =A0=A0=A0I fixed up quite a bunch of them when I started running Boto=
=2E
>=20
> =A0=A0=A0For example, parsing of arbitrary ACPs is absent and only ca=
nned
> =A0=A0=A0forms are supported for now.
>=20
>  - You're likely to run into bugs with stability, or something not
> =A0=A0=A0starting... I just barely have it all working. Don't trust t=
abled
> =A0=A0=A0with your backups just yet (I don't). Maybe in a few months.

Noted.  Thanks for the warning.

>=20
> > If yes to both, can you outline the steps that you would setup
> > the three components for such a purpose?=A0=20
>=20
> 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.

I have been tied up in this past week and half by routine workload (don=
't we all have such?).  I will try to squeeze sometime in the next week=
 to see if I can make some headway.  Will keep the list posted.

Thanks,

--Zack