I have set up a very small grid with some associates. The grid has been running a little over a month, and there has been very little buy-in. Two people have set up nodes then taken them back down. One was a Windows user who ran into one frustration after another. The other was running a Linux variant, and became concerned about network usage (undisclosed).
The frustrations seem to run along the lines of: - It's hard to get it up and running - Creating directories and files via the WUI makes keeping track of capabilities a tedious manual exercise in futility. - Using the CLI is arcane, mysterious and cryptic. - There should be a FUSE-like gateway through my file manager - Once I create items, I have no way to browser them (see above) - I don't have time to read manuals - I only have [15 minutes a week] to work on this project Our grid is reporting 1+TB of capacity. To my knowledge, I may be the only person using it daily. With only 4 nodes on the grid, I lack confidence in the grid. With the limited number of nodes, and my limited contribution to the grid, I have yet to commit large backups to the grid. At this point, I am using it only for backups that I consider to be a critical need, and where no backup is not an option. (Even the limited tahoe grid is by far my best option for this job.) ---- - Think carefully. - Contra mundum - "Against the world" (St. Athanasius) - Credo ut intelliga - "I believe that I may know" (St. Augustin of Hippo)
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