Was looking at that and it seems it requires construction from windows servers shares.<br><br>What they _really_ need is a way to partition all desktop hard drives into a "used here and now" local partition and a huge chunk made available for a distributed filesystem. I can't tell from reading M$ tech docs on DFS if it actually does block level replication automatically or not.<br>
<br>Totally spoiled using Linux stuff nearly exclusively for the past 10 years. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:14 PM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Yes, DFS. It is really very impressive - when it works.<br>
<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dfs/default.mspx" target="_blank">https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dfs/default.mspx</a><br>
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> Is there such a thing as this for the poor folks in stuck in winders land?<br>
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