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On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:30 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> Am Sonntag, 23. November 2008 23:31:30 schrieb William Kenworthy: |
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> > What I would really like is a file system that would unify these spaces |
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> > and present them to the network as storage space - ideally with |
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> > redundant data storage so one or more machines can dissappear and the |
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> > data is still available. |
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> > AFS is not quite what I want (or maybe it is, but it doesn't seem to |
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> > handle transient storage duplication) |
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> For a non-native speaker, could you explain "transient storage duplication" a |
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> bit more? Because I think AFS may well be what you're looking for, or maybe |
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> its cousin Coda. |
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> Bye... |
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> Dirk |
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By transient storage I mean that the data is duplicated across across |
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physical storage spaces so that if a machine goes down, the data is |
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still available. I thought Andrews FS did that, but didnt see when |
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looking at it yesterday. |
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BillK |
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