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> just have 2 computers that are going to be using the data, It will first be two, but then should grow up to "several" nodes. > try just a cluster{ed|ing} file system. That's what I'm after. How is CODA not a "cluster{ed|ing}" filesystem? > OpenGFS, http://opengfs.org has been down (for the last few days at least), there has been only 1 message posted to the support mailing list this year (in April!), and no updates released since January. Does not seem suitable because there is not a real-world production user base that I can find. > Oracle Cluster File System, Too expensive for this project. > or one of the others. What others? I'm willing to consider alternatives to CODA, but I know of none. OpenAFS's replication is read-only, not read-write, and frankly seems as admin-heavy as CODA. Also, this cluster is an experiment in complete node homogeneity. I want to use the big hard drives of my nodes instead of additional hard drives on yet-more-hardware ($$$). --DerekReceived on 2002-09-25 14:04:16