Hi, I can imagine a use of this for everything that uses the static or xml dumps, as well as unpacking or packing large files. Working with large files over NFS sucks *ss.
Marco On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:17 AM, River Tarnell <river.tarn...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > A feature we may provide to users in the future is servers with fast local > (not > NFS) storage for use by tools. This would be something like user-store, > except > per-server. This storage would be redundant (RAID), but not backed up. > > If anyone feels like they may make use of this, it would be useful to know > exactly how you plan to use it, e.g. how much storage you would need and for > how long, as well as the sort of tasks it would be used for. > > - river. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkzkYpAACgkQIXd7fCuc5vJDygCghiTRX+/t62T4aAudXo0MoX1F > hCcAn22PuG2jWQCUnirte70sUwx2A/j4 > =qPZo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette > -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
