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0 pointstempest_1y ago0 comments

I am using seaweed for a project right now. Some things to consider with seaweed.

- It works pretty well, at least up to the 15B objects I am using it for. Running on 2 machines with about 300TB, (500 raw) storage on each.

- The documentation, specifically with regards to operations like how to backup things, or different failure modes of the components can be sparse.

- One example of the above is I spun up a second filer instance (which is supposed to sync automatically) which caused the master server to emit an error while it was syncing. The only way to know if it was working was watching the new filers storage slowly grow.

- Seaweed has a pretty high bus factor, though the dev is pretty responsive and seems to accept PRs at a steady rate.

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SOLAR_FIELDS1y ago

I use seaweed as well. It has some warts as well as some feature incompleteness but I think the simplicity of the project itself is a pretty nice feature. It’s grokkable mostly pretty quickly since it’s only one dev and the codebase is pretty small

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