Thursday, 6 December 2007

p2p, lockss and cheap archival storage

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 ...

1 comment:

dgm said...

of course, silly me, I've just reinvented oceanstore (http://oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/) a global persistent filesystem ...