在 Aug 26, 2011，3:40 AM，Michael Rogers <[email protected]> 写道： > Hi Tony, > > On 22/08/11 08:19, Tony Arcieri wrote: >> In the meantime, for those of you who have linked me papers describing >> similar systems, do you think any of these systems could potentially >> have the properties I'm describing, i.e. do you think they have the >> requisite ingredients to be the world-scale singular peer-to-peer >> distributed filesystem that all of humanity could share? > > To be honest, I think you're asking the wrong question. It's a question > I've also spent a long time asking, but it's the wrong one. Unfair > resource allocation isn't what's preventing a global p2p filesystem from > existing. > > If you want to know what's actually standing in the way of a global p2p > filesystem, try to persuade your technically minded friends to use Tahoe > (or Freenet, or OceanStore, or CFS, or PAST, or FARSITE) for sharing > files. Make a note of the problems they run into and solve them all. > Repeat the process with your less technically minded friends. Once > you've solved all their problems, open some champagne because you've > achieved more than a decade's worth of p2p research. ;-) > The answer might lie in providing the right market incentives for this kind of work to be done by entrepreneurs. At the end of the day, if there's gain to be had, someone will follow and solve the problems along the way.
Is the real question: How could one monetize an organization that builds and promotes a p2p filesystem? Just a thought. S _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
