another distributed filesystem

[Miles Fidelman]

erpo41 at gmail.com wrote:
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> On Feb 16, 2014 12:58 PM, "David Vorick" <david.vorick at gmail.com 
> <mailto:david.vorick at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > What encourages people to be hosts on distributed file systems?
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> I can't speak for anyone else, but I joined VolunteerGrid2 because I 
> wanted to back up my files and because donating some of my extra 
> storage space to other like-minded individuals was more palatable than 
> paying a monthly fee to a storage company.
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>
Of course, there are other scenarios besides volunteer hosted 
distributed file systems - enterprise-wide, university-wide (e.g., AFS), 
community-wide, project-wide, illicit activities (e.g., the early 
Napster), and probably quite a bit more.

Miles Fidelman


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