On Wednesday 02 March 2005 11:32, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Technomage wrote:
> > 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!
> > ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Do you mean AFS (Andrew File System, written at Carnegie Melon)?
> ADFS is the Acorn Disk Filing System.
>
> I don't know diddly about either.
ah ok. thanks for the correction. :)

I keep thinking is AnDrew File System when its supposed to be Andrew File 
System
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