On Tuesday 01 March 2005 20:14, Don Calfa wrote:

> Kind of OT but a couple of years ago I remember talk about disk sharing
> in networks (my terms my be off) or sharing unused disk space.
there is one that can do this (and it gives the appearance to every machine on 
its net as though they are part of the same filesystem. its call the Andrew 
Networked filesystem. Interestingly enough, one of the first client OS'es to 
be supporteed under ADFS was windows (it was not the first though: BSD was)

>
> The premise is that since the default hard drive is about 40Gig for a
> desktop where an average of 20 Gig is used, there was some sharing tool
> being developed to create a type of NAS based on the availability of the
> drives.
ADFS does this nicely

>
> Something like a pod of 5 computers would share the same data and that
> data would show up as 20 Gig of storage on the network.
ADFS (sorry to harp on the point...)

>
> I don't remember the name of the project but I remember being 'wowed' by
> the idea since some of the workstations equiped today have a default
> 160G hard drive and our server only has 120G.
last reminder: A D F S!
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