Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Announcing the OpenXDSM project I'd like to announce the OpenXDSM project. The OpenXDSM project is intended to create an open source implementation of the Data Storage Management (XDSM) API (also knows as Data Migration Application Programmers Interface (DMAPI)) set forth by The Open Group in 1997 (http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/catalog/c429.htm). By providing an open source implementation of the XDSM API, we hope to provide a platform for launching open source HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) projects, as well as make it easier for current HSM vendors who use the XDSM to port their HSM solutions to Linux. The OpenXDSM project is supported heavily by BigStorage Inc. (http://www.bigstorage.com), a company dedicated to providing large storage support for Linux. We see the addition of the XDSM API as an important step towards making Linux an enterprise-ready server solution. Our current development site is hosted by SourceForge (http://www.sourceforge.net) and resides at http://openxdsm.sourceforge.net. If you have any interest in HSM on Linux, please visit the OpenXDSM site and look around. We are currently planning the project, but have put together some code ideas which will be available from the site shortly. If you have any questions, comments, or especially suggestions, feel free to drop a line on the mailing list, or contact me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gawain Lavers Software Engineer Torque Systems Inc. / BigStorage Inc. 19 Heron Street voice: (415) 252-5521 San Francisco, CA 94103 fax : (415) 252-1521
