2) No modifications, just new files and the occasional deletion request.
3) Almost just 1 write and 1 read per file, this is a backing storage for the source files, and they are cached in front.
4) Never
5) Files are written only by one other server, and there will be no parallel writes.
6) I pick consistency and as the half, availability.
7) This happened something like 15 years ago with MogileFS and thus scared us away. (Hence the single-server ZFS setup).
8) Reads are public, writes restricted to one other service that may write.
2) No modifications, just new files and the occasional deletion request.
3) Almost just 1 write and 1 read per file, this is a backing storage for the source files, and they are cached in front.
4) Never
5) Files are written only by one other server, and there will be no parallel writes.
6) I pick consistency and as the half, availability.
7) This happened something like 15 years ago with MogileFS and thus scared us away. (Hence the single-server ZFS setup).
8) Reads are public, writes restricted to one other service that may write.