[gpfsug-discuss] First IBM developer blog post

[Ben Roeder]

Hi 
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> On 22 Feb 2015, at 23:55, Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb at us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Hi Ben,
> 
> Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by opposite of the post?  
> 
I do not want to host swift on GPFS, I would like to page files/objects out from GPFS to Swift
> 
> Regarding erasure coding, I'm confident in saying that not all erasure coding mechanisms were created equal, and I'm sure a deep dive on GPFS Native RAID could be provided for you that would clearly show how it is vastly superior in every way to the upcoming (1 year?) version of Swift erasure coding…
> 
I understand.
There is a lot going on here, see http://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/Luse_Kevin_SNIATutorialSwift_Object_Storage2014_final.pdf for some background.

> 
> On your other question regarding paging files out to an object store, that is actually the exact feature provided by the upcoming MCStore feature that was described at IBM Insight and IBM Enterprise in 2014.  Unfortunately there isn't a lot of external info about these feature yet….
> 

Would like to know more about this, as this is exactly what I am talking about from the description. Is this DMAPI based ?
How do I get more information on this ?

> 
> Dean Hildebrand
> IBM Almaden Research Center
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> <graycol.gif>Ben Roeder ---02/02/2015 08:19:47 AM---Hi, I would like to see the exact opposite of this post, esp with erasure coding coming to swift, in
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> From:	Ben Roeder <ben.roeder at sohonet.com>
> To:	chair at gpfsug.org, gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org>
> Date:	02/02/2015 08:19 AM
> Subject:	Re: [gpfsug-discuss] First IBM developer blog post
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> 
> Hi,
> I would like to see the exact opposite of this post, esp with erasure coding coming to swift, instead of the 3 copies redundancy.
> 
> I would like to see the ability to page files out to the object store, like you can to LTFS.
> 
> as per http://www.zurich.ibm.com/sto/systems/bigdata.html <http://www.zurich.ibm.com/sto/systems/bigdata.html> but Openstack Swift instead of LTFS.
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> > On 2 Feb 2015, at 16:02, Jez Tucker (Chair) <chair at gpfsug.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all
> > 
> >  Our first IBM developer's blog post is up.
> > 
> > http://www.gpfsug.org/gpfs-with-object/ <http://www.gpfsug.org/gpfs-with-object/>
> > 
> > Please take 10 secs to give some feedback via the mailing list.
> > Are we hitting the right level, spot, content etc.?
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> > What would you like to see?
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> > Very best,
> > 
> > Jez
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