I haven't tried the JDK6-based FileSystemProvider. I didn't know it was available, actually. Is there documentation?
Sure, I can take a look to see what implementing a JDK7 FileProvider would entail if others are also interested. Kevin On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Andrew Gaul <g...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:01:47PM -0700, Kevin Krouse wrote: >> I'm just getting familiar with the jclouds library and am quite >> pleased so far. Thanks for creating the library. >> >> Is there a JDK7 NIO.2 FileSystemProvider adapter over the jcloud blob >> store API? I'm not very familiar with the issues around blob storage >> so I'm not sure it even makes sense to provide an implementation of >> the FileSystemProvider. >> >> FWIW, I've only found one FileSystemProvider API over S3 so far: >> https://github.com/martint/s3fs > > What do you find lacking in the JDK6-based FileSystemProvider? I have > noticed that it scales poorly with large directories which NIO.2 would > help address. jclouds does not offer support for this today, in part > because we maintain compatibility with JDK6. However, we could host a > JDK7-enhanced provider in labs if the community found this useful. > Would you like to take up this task? > > -- > Andrew Gaul > http://gaul.org/
