"Peter J. Braam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The storage industry is researching such disks which have knowledge not
> merely of blocks, but more "at the inode level". Inodes are called
> objects.
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If you're interested in playing with object-based disks, our NASD
prototype code exports an object-based interface over the network. We
have a rudimentary filesystem that uses the object interface, and
would love to hear about people doing other filesystem work with it.
The code is freely available at http://www.pdl.cs.cmu.edu/extreme, and
has what amounts to a BSD license.
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That aside, I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see object-based
disks commercially available in the next few years.
I'd also love to hear about other people doing interesting OBD stuff,
especially network-based OBD work, under Linux.
--nat
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