[tahoe-dev] thinking of moving my klog from the Test Grid to the Volunteer Grid

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

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