On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 03:25:23AM +0530, Zainul M Charbiwala wrote: > Was wondering if Freenet can be modified to be used to set up distributed > file system. I have about 50 linux boxes with 30 Gigs free on each of > them. Can Freenet be used like maybe a variation of clustered file system > to set up a common resource pool ?
The core problem with this is that Freenet doesn't guarantee data retention, and it would be non-trivial to modify it so that it did. You may want to look at something like Microsoft's Farsite project, they are trying to do pretty-much what you are describing. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Chief Technology Officer, Uprizer Inc. http://www.uprizer.com/
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