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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2006 14:42:40 -0500
From:      "Zane C.B." <zanecb@midwest-connections.com>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Distributed file systems or the like.
Message-ID:  <20060525144240.2e6ad9c3@zerda>
In-Reply-To: <20060525191826.CE2A61BC97@citi.umich.edu>
References:  <20060525191826.CE2A61BC97@citi.umich.edu>

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On Thu, 25 May 2006 15:18:26 -0400
Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> wrote:

> Depends on what you want the multiple copies for.  Load balancing?
> Bandwidth/latency?  Disaster recovery?  Network partition resilience?
> Solving this problem in the general case is a research problem, not
> something you can get off the shelf.

Looking for something to use in the event of a file server dieing. So
disaster recovery.

Just reading up on coda and it is looking interesting.



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