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

[Matthias-Christian Ott]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 07:38:59AM -0400, François-Denis Gonthier wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Of course, we could have to several locations, members could migrate
between them, or if they have a good enough connection we would do NFS
via OpenVPN.
 
> > > 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.

I haven't too, but we could set it up and document our actions in the
wiki, so we can share the knowledge that we have gained.