[HCoop-Discuss] Reorganizing, people-wise and tech-wise

[François-Denis Gonthier]

> All the server will be in one data centre as far as I understood it
> and they will be linked with fast connections, so I don't see a
> problem.

If that's the case then nevermind that objection.

I'm not sure I like that thought.  Being able to spread across the
globle could be an advantage too.

> > I'm against switching to yet another file system.  One of the reason
> > Adam cited is that it limits the number of people able to do
> > administration.  That means that unless you have a contract for life
> > with HCOOP, we may end up in the same situation in a few years if
> > you decide to move on to something else.
> 
> NFS is pretty common these days. It would be a bigger problem if we
> choose some more exotic filesystem which is not part of the kernel
> yet. We could also use GFS if someone is familiar with this.

Properly administering a production NFS setup probably isn't that
common amongst our current members.  I haven't touched NFS beyond what
was needed for home networking.