On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:58:22 GMT Charles Forsyth <fors...@terzarima.net> wrote: > it's curious that people are still worrying about "local" file systems > when so much of most people's data increasingly is miles > away on Google, S3, S3 via Drop Box, etc, which model is closer if anything t > o the > original plan 9 model of dedicated file servers than the > unix/linux model of "the whole world is in the box in front of you".
Peak Local file access bandwidth is typically 50 to 100 MBPs x number of disks; over the localnet it is about 80MBps. On my internet connection I barely get 1MBps download (& 0.2MBps upload) speeds. Not to mention server side slowdowns, loss of control over one's files, sites you download from don't always stick around (or change) etc. etc. So I mostly use local filesystems (as in on the same box or on a local network) & that is where my interest lies.
