> I mentioned in passing some time ago that I was working on a venti > server that uses Amazon S3 as a storage backend. There is now code in > /n/sources/contrib/rcbilson/s3venti . Beware sharp edges. I have > pumped a fair amount of test data through it successfully, but I > wouldn't recommend trusting anything important to it yet. There is a > man page. > > I started writing it under plan9, but for irrelevant reasons later > switched to plan9port, so that's where it's known to work (on Linux, > at least). I would hope and expect that moving it back to native plan9 > would be a small job. > > Questions and comments are welcome.
neat stuff. i took a quick look at pricing -- $0.15/gb/month plus $0.10/gb to transfer data in. assuming it's the data motel and it never checks out, 500GB would cost $1500 to store for a year. but 1GB would cost just $3. this seems nice -- my fs has only 2.5GB of stuff. and even at my cost of $100 for the recycled machine, that $1.60/gb/month. but i would need to cache all that locally & have a duplicate copy. so what usage senerio do you have in mind for venti/s3? skip: what are the principles of operation of s3fs? what's the advantage over venti? - erik
