Is this project still alive ?

[tlvenn]

Hi,

Interested in nimbus but a little worried that no contribution has been made in almost 10 months and there are 2 issues left with no comment what so ever...

Is nimbus.io actually running on this open source project at all ?

[tlvenn]

Is nimbus.io even stil alive itself ? Last twitter was on 10 Apr 2013....

[noplanman]

Was wondering the same thing, a few years later.
This sound too good to be true and it would be a real pity if it was totally dead.

Hope it's just moved 😇

[alanfairless]

I'm sorry to say that Nimbus.io is no longer maintained by SpiderOak. At the time Nimbus.io was created, there were no reliable object stores that use erasure coding to achieve redundancy instead of using replication. That was the appeal for the system at SpiderOak: we store many petabytes of data, and replication has far higher overhead in terms of total storage required.

However now other open source projects support erasure coding: e.g. Ceph http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/operations/erasure-code/ and Minio https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/docs/erasure

Cheers!