On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Mark <fos...@happybeing.com> wrote: > Its not really a shared disk. I described it because what I have in mind > is similar to sharing a disk. In practice, the data is stored on the p2p > network, spread all over the place. However, each user with access has > the option of seeing it appear as a virtual drive - hence like a shared > disk. > > The access will occur over TCP/IP, but as the network is p2p, the > endpoints don't communicate directly, and don't know anything about each > other apart from an anonymous address. All communications is encrypted, > and independent of existing internet DNS, routing etc. > > Machines will also be able to exchange messages, but my aim is for the > p2p network to take the *role* of the server, so a client machine can > clone a repo without any other client machine being involved - just > cloning directly off the p2p storage. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to > clone your repo unless you were online. I say *role*, because the > network cannot host the Fossil server, it can only run on a client. > > Hope that's clearer! :) >
Sounds interesting. Please post a URL about this SAFE Network. I've tried searching, but getting many "competing" "safe networks".
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