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+ ext Brian White f0c
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> Now, as I understand it, you're talking about replicating a complete
> volume on an additional server.  I was thinking of a resolution more on
> the file level.
> 
> A new server in the group would initially start out as just a blank holding
> disk.  When it needed a file, that file would be fetched and cached locally.
> Once held on this new server, another server could purge its copy to make
> space for something else it would like to cache.  As long as there were
> at lest three (for example) other copies out there somewhere, a server
> would know that it was free to purge its local copy and the system as
> a whole would still meet the minumum required redundancy.

Ah, I misunderstood what you're after.  In that case, I recommend
reading about OceanStore instead :-).  There are a number of other
projects whose names escape me that are headed in that direction; they
should be referencing it, at least.

		--Rod