Jack Coats wrote:
> I don't know what happened to it, but at one time there was development 
> being done on a 'distributed
> file system', where the data was 'raided' across many systems, so if 
> some of the systems 'went away'
> the data was still there and updated.  And when they came back, it was 
> automatically put back in and
> 'synced'.  It was supposed to use all much of the 'unused space' on 
> client desktops, but the people on
> the desktop would have to go into the 'front door' to see the data, not 
> just what was on their desk.

I don't know what specific file system you are thinking about, but 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_fault_tolerant_file_systems>
 
and 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_parallel_file_systems>
 
have some interesting alternatives if one wants to go down that avenue.

Lustre sounds interesting.

/Martin


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