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From: Perry and Lorae Merritt (plmerritt, hypermall dot net) Date: 2001.10.28 - 16.15 MST
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 I read through the doc. We have company so I couldn't spend a lot of time on it. I like the toolkit nomenclature. It's better than ADC. I have the same question that's highlighted in the doc. "Is this true - specifically, are there any other file-system peculiarities we have to worry about, or can everything else be handled through the VFS?" P ----- Original Message ----- From: "June Mullins" <junemullins, earthlink dot net> To: <antera, cryptofreak dot org> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 12:40 PM Subject: Arch doc (again) > Since we're meeting on Tuesday, I thought it was about time I got around to > making the updates we talked about last Tuesday. Please check em out. > I didn't do anything about the focus issue. We talked about the fact > the the > document describes the general Antera architecture, but doesn't say much > about the archiving appliance we are actually focussing on building. > That's > because the architecture is much more general, and is really independent of > any particular application. However, the general focus means we don't say > anything about particular tools, such as HSM support code; and we don't > really say much about archiving at all. Is this satisfactory???? > > I assume we're meeting at 1:30 again. Does anyone want to change the time? > Would it be more convenient if we met earlier or later? > > Remember other unresolved issues from last meeting: > > - Is there a problem with timeouts when we need to restore a file from > tape? Do we block on open, > and wait until the entire file is restored? Do we block on read, and > wait only until we can satisfy the > read? > - Can we (should we) take advantage of HSM-aware applications? > - Do we need dynamically expandable storage? With RAID protection? > - Would it be reasonable to require the customer to have a tape library > with more than one tape drive? > Two tape drives would be useful for autorestore during disaster recovery. > - We need to know more about what the different management policies > would be. > - What do we want to build for a prototype? > > June > > -- 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/.
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