ElasticDrive S3 Backed FileSystem is now available for free download
ElasticDrive S3 Backed FileSystem is now available for free download
By VSM News Staff published: Tuesday, July 31 2007
ElasticDrive is a network block device based upon the Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). ElasticDrive provides a caching block device driver which pushes blocks to and from S3 as if they were being written to a local block device.
ElasticDrive provides this service through a virtual NBD service. The NBD service translates from standard NBD to S3 packets transparently, so that the client (the kernel) sees a generic block device. NBD is supported on almost every linux kernel (including EC2). Simply modprobe nbd, and you are ready to use ElasticDrive.
ElasticDrive is not intended to replace your existing hard drives or network filesystems directly. ElasticDrive is intended to provide seamless backup, RAID target devices, or backing stores for higher level distributed filesystems.
