[glue-wg] Datastore proposal

[Burke, S (Stephen)]

Paul Millar [mailto:paul.millar at desy.de] said:
> > StorageSupply ?

I don't really like that, it doesn't convey the idea of representing the
hardware.

> I'm not a fan of StorageLibrary as, to me, it sounds quite 
> tape-specific 
> (people tend not to talk about libraries of disks, right?).

Perhaps not, but I'm not sure there's a good reason why you can't.
Possibly it's just a visual thing, tapes in racks look like a library
and disk racks don't?

> StorageSupply would be OK; but for me, "supply" doesn't hint 
> strongly that 
> it's the physical medium/media we're referring to.

Indeed.

> I did a quick hunt through an online thesaurus.  Would one of 
> these be useful?
> 
> StorageRepository
> StorageVault
> StorageSource
> StorageBase
> StorageArchive
> StorageWarehouse

Of those I'd be inclined to go for StorageVault, partly because it's
short. Also it somewhat conveys the right idea, while being sufficiently
exotic that you realise that it's a specialised term. And while it does
have some extra connotations (vampires? :) they don't really relate to
computing, whereas e.g. Archive would suggest something that would be
read infrequently. Repository would be my second choice, but it's longer
and to me at least fairly meaningless.

Stephen

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