The following is our planned schedule of releases, along with the planned features of each release and a listing of important associated activity.

L-Store Release 0.8 --- December 4 REDDnet@I2 meeting

This release is "released." Documentation and Client software is available.

API documentation will be provided
- with the caveat that it is subject to change
- may change due to input from REDDnet community
L-Store Functionality:
- mkdir
- command line help
- storage fault tolerance via weaver erasure codes (upload and recovery)
Demonstration similar to SC06 (but on a smaller scale... 20 Gbs?) will be made at REDDnet@I2 meeting.
Clients will be made available (from REDDnet website) for installation by attendees at REDDnet@I2
- for user testing and application development
- files written to depots should be considered scratch
Server and Depot software will not be made available at this point.
Bugs: a dozen or so minor (non-data-threatening) bugs were discovered at SC06. As many of these as can be fixed will be, the rest will be fixed by "0.9" release.
ACCRE will work with Med Center Staff (Leibler/Proteomics) to begin the process of migrating them over to using L-Store instead of ADIC
NevoaExplorer interface (Hunter)
- This interface will work with existing depots
- Software will be demo-ed at REDDnet@I2
- Full integration with L-Store will likely not be complete at this stage
- Hunter is making a generic layer that will be agnostic to protocol (NFS, CIFS, L-Store)
Omissions
- No Physical Delete
- No Authentication and Authorization
- No production depots publically available, but public depots for scratch files and testing will be available.

L-Store Release 0.9 --- End of January 2007

Client available on REDDnet webpage
New Functionality
- FUSE filesystem interface for Linux - allows you to mount L-Store storage as a native drive
- Physical delete command
- stat command
- ls-l
- Remaining SC06 bugs will be fixed, plus any new ones discovered
The meta-data server for the publicly available depots will be set up on a mirrored-raid device for fault tolerance
- "production" public depots will be available
Full L-Store/NevoaExplorer interoperability will be implemented
Server/Depot software will be made available to REDDnet collaborators on request
Full scale testing of ADIC replacement for Proteomics will begin
Omissions
- No Authentication and Authorization

User Manual and Server Manual will be made available
Actual release date will be re-evaluated in January of 2007
Fault tolerance
- recover from lost metadata (we are not sure what the mechanism will be)
- If a depot permanently dies, the missing file data will be automatically reconstituted for those files where possible. Unrecoverable files will be marked as such.
Switch Proteomics over to L-Store, replace ADIC system.
Real Server and Depot installer
Authentication and Security features enabled
- need to spell out more specifically what
Load balancing on the meta-data servers will be implemented
Integration of StorCor into L-Store
complete L-Store monitoring will be ready taking advantage of new Java implementation of IBP