On Thursday,2009-09-17, at 2:29 , Peter Secor wrote: > Maybe we can repurpose the test grid boxes to the volunteer grid. > As a representative of Allmydata.com, I can volunteer them for the > grid, but before I do so I'd want to make sure they could be > maintained by volunteers as well. Ideas on how to effect that > transition are welcome.
That's a kind offer, but part of what makes the Volunteer Grid feel safer to me is that it has a diversity of owners, operators, and locations of servers (see the Volunteer Grid Map [1]). It would be hard to add three machines each with four storage servers to the Volunteer Grid without skewing that balance, especially if you (already responsible for four volunteer grid storage servers) or me (already responsible for two) were responsible for those ones. Also, now that I've finished diagnosing and upgrading the Test Grid, I'm thinking that there is still a use for it -- it is good to have a grid that people can bang on without worrying that anyone is relying too heavily on it. Here's my latest klog entry: """ ... contrary to what I said on 2009-09-16, I think I'll keep using the Test Grid to host my klog for now. I found some interesting bugs in Tahoe-LAFS and/or Ubuntu (Tahoe-LAFS #806, Tahoe-LAFS #807), but once I upgraded the Tahoe-LAFS storage servers on the Test Grid from an old version deployed almost a year ago to the current release, everything started performing much better. """ Regards, Zooko [1] http://webcontent.osm.lab.rfc822.org/tahoe _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
