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From: Perry and Lorae Merritt (plmerritt, hypermall dot net) Date: 2001.09.26 - 22.08 MDT
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 I'll be there at 11:30. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kreider" <brian, thekreiders dot com> To: <antera, cryptofreak dot org> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:05 PM Subject: RE: Meeting thoughts and some other stuff. > I'm on the list Perry. Are we meeting tomorrow? > > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-antera, cryptofreak dot org > [mailto:owner-antera, cryptofreak dot org]On Behalf Of Perry and Lorae > Merritt > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 6:56 PM > To: antera, cryptofreak dot org > Subject: Re: Meeting thoughts and some other stuff. > > > Alright, so I used the mail list. Who did I send it to? Am I allowed to know > that? ;-) > > You're right, the autorestore thing isn't real popular, at least with me. > There's got to be a better way. What if we sent the ADML a message through > the portal with some identification stuff, like the pid or ... then the open > request could compare who's doing the open with the portal or ADC, or backup > job, or whatever and treat it differently. > > The virus check/backup preparation ADC just confirms what we already > believed, the architecture is pretty cool. > > Here's an idea, can we make the ADC like a stack, where we can stack pieces > together to perform any number of tasks? > > I'm available to meet Thursday at our normal time. I can't meet Friday, I > have another engagement. > > I went out to the web page. Any way we can each get a name/password set up? > You know, I own anterastorage.com would you like to set it up on your server > Jay? > > Jay, I also have all of the docs on my computer. Is there a way I can check > them into your cvs repository? > > Is Dan on this mailing list? Does he know about tomorrows meeting? Are we > meeting tomorrow? Does Kevin know? > > Perry > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jay Miller" <jnmiller, cryptofreak dot org> > To: <antera, cryptofreak dot org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 2:46 PM > Subject: Meeting thoughts and some other stuff. > > > > Hi. I thought I would brief you all on the results of the short meeting > > Don and I had this morning, and fill you in on some other minor stuff I > > did. > > > > We worked through a couple other use cases. Here's some text about > > them, though Don has them more officially documented. > > > > * Virus checking > > We only considered virus checking at the time of backup, rather than > > file creation/write time. For performance reasons, this is all that > > makes sense, and I don't *think* anyone had expected otherwise. (?) > > > > Checking for viruses therefore because a step in the backup use case we > > all did yesterday. However, we thought it made sense to postponed virus > > checking in particular and just consider a generic 'Backup Preparation' > > interface. It would be a way for miscellaneous modules to plug in to > > our ADCs and preform whatever sort of action is needed. Examples might > > include compression, encryption and, of course, virus checking. > > > > In any of these cases, the module is extremely small: just a command > > line interface to analyze the snapped file in the appropriate way. > > > > Neat, we thought. > > > > * Auto-restore > > This idea may not be so popular, but after thinking about it for a bit, > > Don and I thought it might actually be kinda slick as well as being the > > only right way to do it. > > > > Auto-restores begin with an open() request for a migrated file. That > > open will block while the ADML manages to restore the data. On disk at > > that time, we believed, is a 0-length file representing the real file. > > Fine. All good. > > > > The ADML sends a request out for the specified file, and that file is > > read from tape (or whatever). We can't just restore the file directly > > to the file system from the top, however, because we won't be able to > > differentiate that open from any other open (or a write, or whatever). > > We therefore thought that our software will be required to send the > > raw data straight to the ADML level and have it make the write() calls > > to the file system. When the data is restored in this manner, the PD is > > updated and the original open() is unblocked. > > > > Kinda neat, though it might sound hairy at first. > > > > * Archive/migrate a file > > This one turned out a bit complicated. No description from me! > > > > ... > > > > In other news, this email was sent, as you can see, to > > 'antera, cryptofreak dot org'. This is a mailing list so I don't have to > > manage all those damn email addresses in the To: line. > > > > Another benefit of such a thing is privacy: anyone seeing this email > > will see only what you can see, namely sender and the list name. While > > it's not really a big deal, it could provide a little protection > > sometime. (And no, you can't expand the list at my SMTP server.) > > > > One other benefit is the ability to have a central archive (ha!) of all > > of this crap we're sending. Which leads me to.. > > > > I also setup a little website that might be a nice place to deposit > > code and documents. The list archive is also found here. > > > > http://www.cryptofreak.org/projects/antera/ > > > > It's all protected by the following access info: > > > > user: antera > > pass: asc-GUEST > > > > Check it out, if you like. There's also instructions on using the list > > and, if you like, adding names to the list. For now, if you want to > > email the list, just send to antera, cryptofreak dot org. > > > > -- > > Jay Miller > > > > ICQ: 32123421 | YM: ladenedge | http://www.cryptofreak.org > > PGP: 0xedc9bb8d | 41a6428c 46abd36b 6b259b68 8a28ca4c edc9bb8c > > -- > > This is the antera mailing list. To unsubscribe, email > > majordomo, cryptofreak dot org with message body `unsubscribe antera'. > > Or, for more information, visit http://www.cryptofreak.org/. > > > > -- > This is the antera mailing list. To unsubscribe, email > majordomo, cryptofreak dot org with message body `unsubscribe antera'. > Or, for more information, visit http://www.cryptofreak.org/. > > -- > This is the antera mailing list. To unsubscribe, email > majordomo, cryptofreak dot org with message body `unsubscribe antera'. > Or, for more information, visit http://www.cryptofreak.org/. > -- This is the antera mailing list. To unsubscribe, email majordomo, cryptofreak dot org with message body `unsubscribe antera'. 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