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[Patrick McGarry <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome, must have missed that.  Thanks Stefano!



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Patrick McGarry
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Fri 12 Jul 2013 06:53:46 AM PDT, Patrick McGarry wrote:
> > In fact, we'd love to see a similar abstracted approach on the object
> > storage side as well.
>
> Indeed, there is some work already going in this direction for OpenStack
> Object Storage. A couple of Red Hat engineers are working on  LFS, Local
> File System (https://github.com/zaitcev/swift-lfs and
> http://zaitcev.livejournal.com/215159.html, plus there is something in
> review on review.openstack.org, too) to allow swift to better integrate
> with different filesystems.
>
> Something like LFS was originally proposed by Nexenta a while back but
> their patch unfortunately never merged.
>
> LFS was mentioned on swiftstack blog after the summit in Portland.
> details on
>
> http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/04/24/openstack-summit-api-discussion/
>
> HTH
> stef
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