-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 March 2002 17:10, you wrote: > On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Jeff Darcy 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 ? > | > |Your files will only be accessible via the Freenet APIs, not via standard > |filesystem open/close/read/write (or exec). There will be no directory > |structure or permissions. There will be no data consistency. If all of > |those are fine with you, you can use Freenet for this. Otherwise, you'd > | be better off trying something like Coda or SFS. > > The perms aren't too much of a problem. I would want to use this 1500 GB > odd of space for an internal FTP server anyway. The fact that the files > will only be accessible thru the APIs could be a hitch. If its possible > though, a Freenet-to-FTP translator could be written.
I belive somebody already did one, though I don't think he ever released it. > How did you mean, 'there will be no data consistency' though ? It means data disappears when you don't use it very often. - -- X windows: There's got to be a better way. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjyCpz0ACgkQqpueKcacfLTWnwCdFJRF5uQAtCZF3nxgY80DZZmw GuEAoK2kVCeCUvR8dZs/plM1hAauvu6z =WJIq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
