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[Dean Troyer <dtroyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Ed Leafe wrote:
>>       The term "zone" was adopted at a time when we weren't really
>> focusing on mimicking the AWS Availability Zone concept, and in
>> hindsight, it was a poor choice. So we should learn from that mistake
>> and make sure we don't choose a replacement term that already has
>> a common usage, such as shards segments or clusters.

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Chris Behrens <cbehrens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sector?

Getting away from computing related collectives:

assembly - lends itself to sub-assembly, etc

faction - When these servers over here disagree with those servers
over there, such as in Xen vs KVM configurations

schism - a fancier-and-harder-to-spell-and-pronounce faction

coalition - when the Xen vs KVM schism gets patched up and instead
they separate based on vi vs emacs or Gnome vs KDE


And my favorite (partly because it is only 4 characters!):

bloc - a group with a common interest, sometimes in voting situations


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Dean Troyer
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