I'm working on building a local instance of the galaxy server. I've got the application up and its proxied behind a local apache. The base OS is redhat 5.5 kernel 2.6.18-194, python 2.6, on an hp dl385 with 8 cores and 20 GB of ram. The local drive is 1 TB SAS and I have a few TB of nfs space mounted as /exds/galaxy for holding the datafiles as a repository.

I've got about 1 TB of solexa seq I want to make available to the various tools, bowtie, bwa, ... for analysis by the group but I'm a little uncertain how to proceed. It seems that I should make a file similar to faseq.loc in the tool-data folder that points to the individual files in a folder in the nfs space, but I'm not sure how that will make it available to the different tools that could use it and how to keep it a single copy as different users access it and choose from the fastq files to make datasets for analysis.

In the galaxy-wiki it said to write to galaxy-dev@bx.psu.edu, on the galaxy site it links to galaxy-bugs@bx.psu.edu, at bitbucket I was just going to add this question as a issue. What is the preferred way to ask questions like this?