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On 02/25/12 15:37, Kamil Choudhury wrote:
> The dream: a file system spread out over a variable,
> ever increasing number of hosts, presenting a single
> unified file system to any client host mounting the
> file system.
>
>> From the client's point of view, it is possible to
> snapshot the directory view that is presented. The
> client also has confidence that data written to the
> file system will be returned exactly as it went in.
>
> Now that I think about it, what I seem to be looking
> for is a network aware ZFS that uses hosts as vdevs.
>
> Is there such a thing out there?

AFS perhaps?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAFS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System

/usr/ports/net/openafs

Cheers,
Lawrence