On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
John Vandenberg wrote:
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Platonides wrote:
What were the reasons for replacing lighttpd with Sun Java System Web
Server ?
Probably the same
What was wrong with LVM snapshots? Performance?
in zfs every write is 'copy on write', so snapshots have 'zero' cost, and
multiple snapshots can use same data.
in LVM every snapshot is standalone and has all the information it needs. also
LVM doesn't have snapshot-based replication, and
Platonides wrote:
What were the reasons for replacing lighttpd with Sun Java System Web
Server ?
Probably the same reason that the toolserver uses Confluence instead
of MediaWiki.
-- Tim Starling
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On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Platonides wrote:
What were the reasons for replacing lighttpd with Sun Java System Web
Server ?
Probably the same reason that the toolserver uses Confluence instead
of MediaWiki.
It only contains one page, which
John Vandenberg wrote:
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Platonides wrote:
What were the reasons for replacing lighttpd with Sun Java System Web
Server ?
Probably the same reason that the toolserver uses Confluence instead
of MediaWiki.
It only
Robert Rohde wrote:
The historical position has been that absolutely nothing goes into the
WMF software pool unless it is open source. As I recall, the only
recognized exception was the closed source firmware running the
routers at the server farm.
Also Solaris.
Lucene is free software,
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
However, when we needed to scale up our file storage platform, and
make backups more feasible, ZFS's snapshot feature became too
attractive to resist.
What was wrong with LVM snapshots? Performance?
