[HCoop-Discuss] Filesystem poll results

[Adam Chlipala]

You can find the current results of the filesystem poll here:
    https://members.hcoop.net/portal/poll?id=21

As of the time I'm writing this, 42 out of 137 members have voted.  They 
chose as follows:

20: A local filesystem
13: A networked/distributed filesystem
9: No opinion

To me, "no opinion" should be interpreted to mean that these members 
would only want/benefit from a networked filesystem that improved some 
aspect of our infrastructure that isn't directly visible to members.  
Probably people who skipped voting are disproportionately unlikely to 
have explicit preferences for any features beyond the bare-bones UNIX stuff.

We have more than twice as many votes stating disinterest in networked 
FS features as votes expressing interest.  This makes it sound to me 
like it makes sense to do local filesystem accounts by default and plan 
to eventually support (maybe multiple) networked filesystems as optional 
add-ons that our "production" infrastructure ignores.

Does anyone disagree with this conclusion?