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.
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