stevelandiss

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by stevelandiss 10y ago
You can't easily make a company out of selling free stuff?
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by stevelandiss 10y ago
Dude, chill.
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by stevelandiss 10y ago
Mostly people like you that thought it was a good product but never paid.
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by stevelandiss 10y ago
So if I were to run a database on this, wit a lot of overwrites, the storage would grow infinitely? Secondly, this implies you are remapping the LBA (offsets) all the time, perhaps taking what would be sequential access and turning it into
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by stevelandiss 10y ago
How do you say that with conviction? I looked at the code and it has no bearings of being able to build a fault tolerant elastic block storage system.
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by stevelandiss 10y ago
If I could also add that NBD is extremely notorious in Linux. I am a block storage developer and NBD has been one of the main reasons why so many openstack storage products (like formation data and others) have really struggled. There are
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by stevelandiss 11y ago
Why would you say that global state in a distributed system is not possible? The entire internet is a distributed system with global state. The state needs to be aware of the context and access, that's all.
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by stevelandiss 11y ago
@takeda, how do you create 3 different containers in Docker for dev/test/prod? What parameters are you changing in the three stages?
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by stevelandiss 11y ago
Agreed, but a docker image is lighter in weight and takes less time to deploy and consumes less resources on the target server
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by stevelandiss 11y ago
I consider it as a replacement for deploying applications as a virtual machine. That is, if I want to host compute and let anyone run any random program in a reproducible manner on my server, I could let them run it in docker and be done w