On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 02:18 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 09:08:16PM -0300, Diego Woitasen wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for software that supports DMAPI on Linux. I haven't > > found anything on the web. I need to implement HSM for a mail server, > > to store old messages in a secondary storage. > > > > Are there something implemented? Open source or propietary one? I > > prefer open source obviously... > > The XFS on disk format supports the required metadata for DMAPI, but the > implementation for it never made it into the mainline Linux kernel. For > years SGI provided a tree to add the support, but for the last few years > the support bitrotted heavily. Alex promised to publush a tree with > updated DMAPI support in the near future. (Catching up on old mail, sorry I didn't respond earlier.) I will keep my promise... I have it ported to the 2.6.32-stable and 2.6.33-stable branches at this point. I was going to try to get up-to-date with the newest kernels first, but am now setting my sights on getting just what I have so far published. I will send an announcement when it's available. > You'll still need additional userspace support the to actually driver > the migration. The xfstests suite has a minimal implementation for QA > purposes as free software, but I don't think that's what your looking > for. The main user of the XFS DMAPI support is SGI's DMF product, > and at least a few years ago IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager also supported > DMAPI. As Christoph said, SGI offers DMF (Data Migration Facility), but it is a proprietary product. -Alex _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
