[tahoe-dev] Real-world Tahoe-LAFS grid deployment

[Nathan Eisenberg]

> The need to change encoding parameters makes adding more servers to the
> grid or removing old servers cumbersome. To make matters worse, the
> current repairer uses the same encoding parameters which were used when
> the file was initially uploaded. In this case, that means that a file which was
> uploaded early in the life of the grid (my root directory for
> instance) is still only stored on 5 disks. Those disks might even be housed by
> the same server in case of very bad luck because Tahoe-LAFS is currently
> missing peer selection with data-center/rack/server awareness (ticket #467).

This is precisely why I'm hesitant to deploy multiple tahoe node processes on a single physical server.  That whole concept is a bit messy anyways - I'd much rather see 1 node process with 24 different storage threads (1 per disk) than 24 independent node processes.

Nathan