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From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Subject: Re: Incite into reiser5?
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:42:51 -0500
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Hubert Chan wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:34:14 -0500, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> said:
> 
> 
>>Lares Moreau wrote:
>>
>>>I'm looking into it because I am looking into doing a masters
>>>focusing on distributed file systems.  There was a mention of reiser5
>>>being distributed.
>>>I'm intruiged by the plugin system of reiser4, and I am looking into
>>>generating a distributed plugin.
> 
> 
> That would be great if you could get something implemented.  I think
> that Linux needs a good distributed filesystem.

It has one.  It's called Lustre.

What Linux needs is good, distributed filesystem that runs on the 2.6 
kernel, without users having to pay licensing fees.