[glue-wg] Datastore proposal

[Burke, S (Stephen)]

Maarten.Litmaath at cern.ch [mailto:Maarten.Litmaath at cern.ch] said:
> No, I do not have a problem with that.  My point is that the very same
> facility that provides the tape may at the same time control the disk:
> the disk would just be the online component of the tape store, and not
> something that one has to foresee separately, if desired.

Isn't that the point of having the Resource? That represents the
management system, and is linked to N Datastores each of which
represents a homogeneous pool of storage. You can choose not to publish
some or all of the Datastores, but I don't see any gain from merging
them together, it would just take us back to the complexity we're trying
to disentangle (i.e. what kind of physical storage is used where).

Stephen