On Oct 2, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Nhestor Balingit wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone here know an open source P2P-like application that can
be used as a file server? For example, a file has a copy on each of
the five file servers, thus downloading the single file from those
five servers will speed up on WAN.
"AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie
Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by
Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-
server architecture for federated file sharing and replicated read-
only content distribution, providing location independence,
scalability, security, and transparent migration capabilities. AFS is
available for a broad range of heterogeneous systems including UNIX,
Linux, MacOS X, and Microsoft Windows"
Link ---> http://www.dementia.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/ it is not
p2p but dunno if that'll work for you.
personally, i use nfs, afp on my home network. i hardly use sftp
anymore. i dunno how well nfs or afp may work for you, but i can
watch a 700mb movie off an nfs and/or afp mount with no lag at all.
of course, i'm the only one using the network--- so really that's not
much of a help for you in terms of comparison.
A bittorrent setup on your lan, would seem to work for you since all
five has a copy of the file but wouldn't it be tedious for your users
to fetch torrent files? that was just a thought.
hope you figure your little thing out soon.
cheers.
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