Re: A new NFSv4 server...

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:28:10AM -0500, Rick Macklem wrote:
>>> Plus, surely in this day and age, we can figure out something better 
>>> than waiting for face-to-face events to test something.  Maybe somebody 
>>> could arrange a donation of some slice of a grid (Amazon EC2?), make 
>>> various OS images available, and give engineers some way to request a 
>>> selection of tests, with a selection of OS images?
>> I tried putting a server up accessible over the internet and only ever
>> got one person testing on it once (or maybe it was just a hacker:-). I
>> did test my client against a server at CITI once, after signing a
>> bakeathon NDA. But, I agree, and I don't really think it even needs
>> a central site. I don't see why vendors couldn't put up servers
>> (production software or whatever they are comfortable having internet
>>  accessible) that clients can test against. I'll be happy to put my
>> server up and I'd be happy to test against internet accessible servers
>> with my client.
> 
> Ditto.  I think it'd be great to have a variety of client and server
> implementations available over the net, but I've had no luck talking
> anybody else into it.

I think blanket public access wouldn't be as effective as passworded 
access to a cluster, much like how people get accounts on kernel.org 
(which is an excellent model for shared-interest services).

On the test cluster, I would want to be able to really stress my 
software, which to any normal firewall or casual observer would look 
like a DoS attempt.

	Jeff