Anyone out there have ideas or suggestions about distributed storage. We have an ever growing need to store sizeable amounts of open material in a replicated and distributed fashion.
We're particularly interested in methods that would allow others to "donate" some degree of storage space (e.g. by running storage nodes). Rufus ## The Background Ever since we started up Knowledgeforge we've been looking for ways to have a distributed storage infrastructure which could scale with our needs. Unfortunately a solution has proved elusive and with several other projects (CKAN especially) in need of the same thing the limitations this imposes are becoming increasingly constrictive -- for example, the bulk of the materials in Knowledgeforge reside in subversion repositories some of which have now grown to be multi-GB in size (not a great situation for performance, backup or anything else). When we lasted look at this issue a couple of years ago there seemed a dearth of (simple-to-use) tools with which to address this problem. However, I get the feeling things have been advancing significantly in the last few years and the time might be right to take another look. _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
