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

[John T. Settino]

> My opinion (because it looks like people want opinions here):
>
> I was/am definitely one of the hcoop members put off by relearning AFS and
> domtool stuff when I wanna add something to my account.  The main problem
> with AFS that I have isn't that it's networked (which is a great idea) but
> that I can't use the usual unix permission commands to manipulate my
> files.
>

Same here. No qualms with a networked filesystem (we use NFS at work), but
the ACLs were definitely an unwelcome change (had to modify portions of my
website so it would continue working). For a coop made up of "power users"
who I assume are very familiar with UNIX permissions, moving to an
architecture that we don't have but one person to admin (says a lot about
the technology vs our userbase, right there!), and forcing the rest of the
userbase to learn a new way of doing things, was pretty stupid IMO. Same
goes for domtool v1 -> domtool2. No effort to help the users convert their
existing configs to new ones, just a "learn it or tough crap" brush off.

I believe an ideal architecture would be as follows:

2 identical NAS machines for data storage w/ NFS
2 identical beefy machines, each housing virtualized servers for services
VMs would be something like
mail
web
db
shell
ldap (for auth)
et. al.

Duplicates of everything for failover capabilities, obviously.

- J
> P
>
> On Jun 26, 2009 6:44 AM, "François-Denis Gonthier"
> <neumann at lostwebsite.net>
> wrote:
>
> I'm avoiding answering to everything you said because I don't want to fork
> this discussion in several different directions.
>
>> Maybe we could make a poll about these decisions, because just deciding
>> >
> on the future of HCoop ...
> I think it's indeed awkward that only 2 people have replied to the
> original request.
>
> I'm giving my opinion because I think I need to get more involved, but
> giving my opinion is the only thing I can really commit to.
>
>> I haven't too, but we could set it up and document our actions in the >
> wiki, so we can share the...
> I think it would be unwise to go in a direction where no volunteer member
> has a certain expertise.  Home networking doesn't have the same
> requirements as enterprise network, and that's the quality level we should
> strive.
>
> In theory, a network filesystem make sense for us.  I think that the use
> of AFS have shown that while network filesystems work, the added
> maintenance burden is too high for us to afford.
>
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John T. Settino
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