a thought ...
if what we want is cheap archival storage could we do it very cheaply by using a lot of minimal boxes running p2p software to distribute the load - should give the same functionality as lockss and with multiple boxes should be failure resistant if not exactly resilient
Put four cheap reasonably big disks in each box ...
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of course, silly me, I've just reinvented oceanstore (http://oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/) a global persistent filesystem ...
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