> Even with 40 machines, you shouldn't run into any issues with > scalability from a performance perspective. The commercial allmydata > site had far more than that.
You know, thinking about this - why should directories not be K=1, M=$numservers? This would seem to be very roughly akin to a distributed MFT? Surely this data doesn't consume a significant amount of storage? For larger clusters, this could curve downwards - for grids with more than 3 nodes, M=$numservers*.75, for grids with more than 10 nodes, M=$numservers*.50, for grids with more than 50 nodes, M=$numservers*.25, etc. Since dirnodes are vital for the accessibility of all of their leaves, doesn't it makes sense to make them far more available than any single leaf? Or, alternatively, designate a new node type - a node that is specifically dedicated to dirnodes? Best, Nathan Eisenberg _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
