All, I just saw http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/TFS.pdf
It describes a research effort to modify ext2 to allow the freespace to be used as a redundant storage solution for large-scale clustered apps. (ie. like the SETI app). As I skimmed the paper, it appears the use of freespace to hold data means the data will often be overwritten, but since the data is redundantly maintained on other computers they just let it get blown away whenever the real user of the computer needs it. Seems to have little impact on the end users machine performance. I encourage us as the opensuse community to track the progress. Maybe one day this can be incorporated into opensuse with a simple checkbox during install of if you want to have your machine participate or not. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
