[p2p-hackers] P2P Backup Survey...

[Adam Lydick]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 04:47, Markus Kern wrote:

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> Something I noticed when running the survey is that the file size
> distribution is skewed towards small files by all the source trees (I
> did not backup those) I have on the disk. You should probably account
> for this if the percentage of developers in the survey group differs
> significantly from the one in the user base of your intended application.
> 
> - Markus

On a related note, Martin (and other curious parties) might want to
check out the work done by MSR's Farsite team. The did a similar study
for their distributed filesystem:

http://research.microsoft.com/sn/Farsite/publications.htm

"Feasibility of a Serverless Distributed File System Deployed on an
Existing Set of Desktop PCs"

- Adam