[9fans] Venti by another name

2009-02-14 Thread matt
I came across this today http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/ It's a P2P system where data blocks are traded not files. A file becomes a set of blocks and if requested, anyone who has the block can supply the data, even if they don't possess the same file. In that way no-one is sharing copyrigh

Re: [9fans] Venti by another name

2009-02-14 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
On this note, Marco Peereboom has been working on epitome: http://www.peereboom.us/epitome --dho

Re: [9fans] reminder: internships in sunny california (but you gotta be a US citizen or visitor ...)

2009-02-14 Thread Ben Calvert
Hi Ron Am very interested. Am a citizen, and am currently an undergrad ( after way too much time administering various unix derived systems for way too long ) Please let me know what info you need? thanks, Ben On Feb 12, 2009, at 5:15 PM, ron minnich wrote: I'm still looking for under

Re: [9fans] Venti by another name

2009-02-14 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:34 AM, matt wrote: > It's a P2P system where data blocks are traded not files. > > A file becomes a set of blocks and if requested, anyone who has the block > can supply the data, even if they don't possess the same file. Sounds vaguely like Freenet. —Joel