[Saga-devel] ssh file adaptor

[Hartmut Kaiser]

> So, I committed a ssh file adaptor just today.
> 
> Basically, that adaptor mounts the remote FS into the local name space,
> and then uses the local file adaptor to perform all operations (README
> attached).  The adaptor then simply translates URLs back and forth
> between the name spaces...
> 
> It seems to work nicely with ec2 hosts, and standard ssh host like qb
> or gumbo or whatever.  I'll send some performance numbers as soon as I
> have them, but don't expect that to be great...
> 
> The ssh job adaptor is not yet working - but that code lives in the aws
> job adaptor at the moment - just need to copy it over.  Stay tuned :-)
> 
> The nice thing is that this is making the cloud adaptors much simplier
> - they basically are reduced to managing the virtual machine instances
> in the Cloud, and to translate the cloud security into ssh certificates
> - everything else can be done via the ssh adaptors.

That's really cool stuff! 

Thanks!
Regards Hartmut