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