From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <82c890d00703190432n7119fc6fu2c40b810896569fd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:32:53 +0100 From: "Gabriel Diaz" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Distributed P2P file system with security and version tracking In-Reply-To: <3d0bbd780703190418h5be32c29had5ff26ce44deaba@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3d0bbd780703190418h5be32c29had5ff26ce44deaba@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2881d06e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 hello take a look at http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/chord/, i think is just what you are looking for.There is no port to plan9 afaik, but it is nice thing to have :) slds gabi On 3/19/07, Anssi Porttikivi wrote: > My company (KPMG) currently has over 100 000 workers. Most people have > a laptop with a hard disk of dozens of gigabytes. I was thinking, has > anyone thought of a distributed P2P file system, where all users could > offer, say 10 G disk space, so that our network would have a 10 000 > Terabyte shared disk? I guess Plan 9 would be a good platform to try > ideas like this. I mean a virtual disk that would look excatly like a > real one, with good redundancy and error recovery, clever caching, > security... >