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2003e9402f26f%(f04)c.11f35ec+ ext Brian White f0c: > Now, as I understand it, you're talking about replicating a complete > volume on an additional server. I was thinking of a resolution more on > the file level. > > A new server in the group would initially start out as just a blank holding > disk. When it needed a file, that file would be fetched and cached locally. > Once held on this new server, another server could purge its copy to make > space for something else it would like to cache. As long as there were > at lest three (for example) other copies out there somewhere, a server > would know that it was free to purge its local copy and the system as > a whole would still meet the minumum required redundancy. Ah, I misunderstood what you're after. In that case, I recommend reading about OceanStore instead :-). There are a number of other projects whose names escape me that are headed in that direction; they should be referencing it, at least. --RodReceived on 2003-02-26 16:34:23