On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Antonio Retico wrote:
> Hi,
>
> well, actually the generic installation is a very technical and neutral
> document where no guidelines at all are given about which kind of
> service is mandatory, dangerous, delicate or "cool" to run. So to remove
> completely a supported installation method (that could be useful,
> incidentally, also to some big sites) does not appear to be a good idea
> and I am sure it is not what you mean.
> What is probably missing is a "deployment strategy" document for small
> sites, that is something completely different. Provided that a site
> administrator knows which nodes he needs to install, it could then pick
> just the needed variables in site-info.def by according to the "context"
> information in the site configuration file specification.
I read this document as exactly that:
http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/documentation/LCG2-Site-Setup/
It talks about what you should do to join, what to setup etc. I just think
that the role of the storage element should be somewhat more qualified
than "you should set it up as a gateway to local storage".
/Mattias Wadenstein
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