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