Jack Coats wrote: > I don't know what happened to it, but at one time there was development > being done on a 'distributed > file system', where the data was 'raided' across many systems, so if > some of the systems 'went away' > the data was still there and updated. And when they came back, it was > automatically put back in and > 'synced'. It was supposed to use all much of the 'unused space' on > client desktops, but the people on > the desktop would have to go into the 'front door' to see the data, not > just what was on their desk.
I don't know what specific file system you are thinking about, but <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_fault_tolerant_file_systems> and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_parallel_file_systems> have some interesting alternatives if one wants to go down that avenue. Lustre sounds interesting. /Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
