2011/8/28 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>:
On Aug 28, 2011, at 4:32 AM, Germán Arduino wrote:
I think that having problems in software is a common reality, unfortunately.
May be Squeaksource and it's servers (I don't know) are having a lot in these days, but the point I would mention is that is needed to think in "availability" more than in have 0 problems.
The problem of the instability of SS is that using files as a back end when you put hundred thousands of files in on folder does not scale. Guess how many files are in the seaside repository :) and the pharo?
Yes, I know. Then here the problem in the persistence in file system, were a possible solution could be a replicated file system: http://www.xtreemfs.org/ (To mention one example of what I'm talking about).
Stef
The problems will exist, sooner or later, with SmalltalkHub or Squeaksource3, the challenge is, in my point of view, to have availability (some ways of reaction) in front of different failures.
no we hope not.
I hope the same, but we should work thinking in that the problems could exist (software, communications, servers, etc) then is good to think in terms of availability (Is not cheap, I know).