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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Wladimir Mutel <mwg@fluffy.isd.dp.ua>
Message-ID: <999959953.410241@firewall.isd.dp.ua>
Subject: [9fans] Serverless network file systems
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:18:24 +0000
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	Is there any development of such FSes for Plan9 ? Recently I
familiarized myself with Berkeley's past and present projects on this topic
(xFS, River, OceanStore). They state that single-host fileservers do not scale
well with the growth of their clients, and propose serverless scheme where
each participating host can serve requests for a big common filesystem stored
across disks of all hosts (and any host can also be a client by mounting that
SL-NFS on itself).

	I think this approach should be very useful in cases when Terminal or
CPU servers have considerable hard disks inside them, e.g. when thay are usual
Intel-PCs. So, I am interested to know any related information, and thank you
in advance for your replies.