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On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:18:41 +0200 (CEST), Konrad Heuer wrote:
>> The
>> number of installations is not the most important figure. Functionality is
>> important -- ZFS, HAST, CARP, jails, as already mentioned -- would be nice
>> to see a distributed file system.
>
> Hmmm... sounds familiar. Didn't VMS have that? Oh wait, things
> like VMS didn't even exist! :-)

How about OpenAFS?

http://www.openafs.org/

We've used original AFS at University on SunOS/Solaris in the 90ies,
and it's still going strong. Maybe FreeBSD's support in 1.6.0pre* needs
a bit of love (?), but we definitely don't need to reinvent the wheel. ;-)

-cpghost.

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