Dave Walton wrote:

Dear Galaxy developers,

Our institution is trying solve our storage problem (we need lots,

especially for NGS data, and someone needs to fund it).  What we would like

to be able to do, is based on some criteria control in what location a file

gets written to disk.

This criteria could be an individual user, a role or group they belong to,

or a project the file is associated with.

What we'd like to know are the following 3 things:

1) Is anyone already working on something like this?

Hi Dave,

We're working on an abstraction layer which will allow Galaxy data to
live in multiple places instead of the single-point "files_path" that is
currently used.  Enis Afgan wrote the initial implementation and I am
hoping to complete it within the next few months.

This won't have any per-user logic, but it should provide a piece of
what you are hoping to do.

--nate

2) Are there other institutions that would be interested in this type of

functionality?

3) If we were to attempt to implement this ourselves, would anyone be

interested in giving us some input with respect to how to implement and how

to make it generic enough to meet the needs of most institutions?  If we're

going to do it, we'll need to be able to produce an estimate of what the

effort would be like so that we could get institutional funding to develop

the functionality.

Thanks for any input you can provide.

Dave

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Dave Walton

Computational Sciences

The Jackson Laboratory

Bar Harbor, Maine

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