Re: time for a flamewar, or ... what about grdb

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> Regular people do not do distributed computing.  And those constitute
> most of the users out there.  Not because they dont want to, but
> because they dont care about it.

You aren't looking ahead. You slap your pda into a base station. Now are
you going to view the pda apps on your desktop monitor and use the keyboard
or are you going to sit their squinting at it and prodding it suspiciously
with a pen ?

> > Wrong. I do that all the time
> 
> So all your machines share the same file system?  I very much doubt
> so.  Maybe your home directory.

The holy grail of desktop computing is efficient scalable low cost
administration without losing too much of the power of the system. Now
imagine you can set up a single file system efficiently across your
entire cluster of boxes and have it doing local journalled caches to
disk. You install an app once and it fans out across the cluster. You
sit at a cow-orkers box and your files are there. You add a new machine
and it just acquires the company file store.

You want to be ready for that, because the rest of the pieces are not
that far away from completion.

Alan