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Just wondering. Would anybody want a block devise backed by s3 or other object storage? Local cache with snapshots that can be rolled back ? Maybe giving you a
by mbrumlow 8y ago
Just wondering. Would anybody want a block devise backed by s3 or other object storage? Local cache with snapshots that can be rolled back ? Maybe giving you a exobyte of addrisable storage ?
This would be a actual block device not a fuse file system.
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- konschubert 8y agoI was actually thinking of doing this as a block device instead of a file system and I agree that it may be the more "natural" solution. However, the software tries to make predictions for which files will be accessed and doing this on a block level would be much harder. Plus, I had to learn fuse to write this and I thought I'd start off easy :D
- chrisper 8y agoYou mean like iSCSI in the cloud?
- mbrumlow 8y agoYeah like iSCSI backed by the cloud but with local cache for recently used data. And the ability to roll the entire device back to a state in the past (depending on how big you want your S3 bill to be).