Directory and data management services API and protocol

This page lists all of the functions that we can think of that may be made interoperable. Functional areas can be added, and discussions of how each function applies to different frameworks (lStore, Lodn, ...)

- Directory manipulation - opendir like interface (create,delete,move,walk) (Name service)

- Open/close; obtain a handle/ release handle (Name service)

- locking file & byte range (Persistency)

- Specify lun + upload, download (Data logistics)

- get file mappings (Name service)

- replication (Data logistics)

- fault tolerance (Data integrity)

- permissions (Security)

- auth/authz (Security)

- allocate space (Data logistics)

- data migration

- soft links - internal and external

- recover failed mappings

- encryption

- add arbitrary metadata ala xfs

- object integrity

- fsck/format/default options

- object life times

- advanced resource allocation

- workflows

- data-pathing

- registration of a micro-services framework

- quotas

- versioning

- file semantics - versioning/cow/locking etc

- other ideas ???