Gave talk at WLCG meeting:
https://indico.cern.ch/event/609911/contributions/2605031/attachments/1479494/2293537/WLCGObjectStores20170620.pdf
I will have a few slides on Echo but I don’t think (or want) to encourage people to deploy Ceph with our XRootD/GridFTP plugin:
- There will be ongoing effort to support a HEP specific thing.
- Some sites won’t want to make the invasive adjustments to their cluster (e.g. creating new pools).
- VO continue to use storage like a file system based one.
We want to just provide S3/SWIFT interface. We want to find a way to integrate this smoothly into WLCG data models.
I am working on a document regarding integration of object stores into WLCG data model. I started writing a document about integration with GridFTP, then realised it should be more general purpose.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X5lDVs1HwK3t74ljwzdlQYgKo_HjyQNVWwxjfWo2g-s/edit?usp=sharing
I hope to have it in better shape by next weeks pre-GDB. I feel this will also fit well with various other recent documents (from HSF etc) that try to talk about object stores but without a clear idea how things could evolve.
