anybody used php->perl interface with mogilefs?

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Bryn Forbes wrote:

> I work for a company that develops image database software, and we've
> been considering implementing something very similar to mogilefs, and
> then I stumbled upon mogilefs and given our desire not to reinvent the
> wheel we're strongly considering using mogilefs. I'm wondering if
> anybody can point out any gotchas as far as using the php->perl
> interface (as described at
> http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-perl.php) we want to be able to
> have a php web interface which does authentication read and write the
> files.

The app <-> tracker protocol is damn simple.  You can implement just that
part in PHP (I think somebody's already done it?) and keep the rest in
Perl.  (the file replication, etc)

> Does the db schema for the file replication allow for specifying which
> disks are on which machines so as to make sure copies are on different
> machines?

Yes.

> Can it be extended to support multiple geographic locations
> (require one copy in each location)?

It doesn't do it now, but it wouldn't be that hard at all.

- Brad