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Introducing ClusterFsck: Filebased S3 Configuration Kontrol

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Re: Introducing ClusterFsck: Filebased S3 Configuration Kontrol

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Is this based on Amazon S3 because you have that at hand, or is it based on it because of some innate advantage?

A little bit of both I guess? It's become standard enough that most web developers (at least most I know) have an account and use it for a few things here and there, it's dirt cheap and widely available, and it's just text files we're storing, so nothing more heavy weight is needed. It does also offer versioning, which I believe we may add a feature to take advantage of for rolling back configuration changes in a coh…

Have you had any issues with eventual consistency? Does this need to be run on US-west or EU for read-after-write consistency?
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